The unicom police

juan valdez said:
Agreed. So you're blocking the taxiway, costing everyone money and then flip him off and block the runway for even longer?
I wish I could be cool.
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I was blocking access from the ramp to the taxiway - and as I just posted, it was due to an instructor who kept getting pissed that I didn't pull up to the taxiway.

But again, 3 or 4 minutes at the most. And again, another access point to the taxiway within 100-yards. No excuse for being an ass on the radio.
 
I sometimes here alot of unicom mix match radio traffic. But its mostly the local flight school people trying to be louder (in a way to say its the correct way of doing it).

But the flip side to this arguement is the corporate people that always come barreling straight in, sometimes opposing traffic in the pattern (landing the opposite end), and they dont care and expect the "small cessna's (172'ish) to give way to the big cessna's (citations)"

There are good days and bad days on the unicom.
And plently of days that can make someone shake there head and say good grief.
 
HeyEng said:
Occasionally? Are you kidding me? They are the BIGGEST offenders.

"I got the traffic on the fishfinder"
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OMG. This means N-O-T-H-I-N-G to ATC or the airplane which you're about to lose separation with. People don't realize that it's a TCAS, not some tactical radar display (ie: accurate!) in the backseat of an F-15E Strike Eagle.
 
flyguydaniel said:
The "left final" was always comical to hear. It gave me a chuckle everytime.
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I was flying the other day, and was talking with the guy sitting in the right seat with me. I made fun of some kid who said that. No less than 3 minutes later, guess what I managed to say on the radio. Nothing like a good dose of Karma.
 
I called up SJC tower once and had a brain fart and said "San Jose Tower, Skyhawk 3504P...err...Skyhawk 51989....correction Skyhawk 21591 request the option". I knew I just sounded like a tard to all the airliners on frequency, no one needed to remind me. Play nice now.
 
My favorite recent communication SNAFU was in the DFW area. The past few weekends had been pretty soggy, but we finally got a nice clear Saturday. That means every Joe Pilot wants to go up and shake the rust off. There were three of us in the traffic pattern at an uncontrolled field while somebody at another field starts chatting.

Joe: "Hey Bill, who do I get user way points into the GPS?"
Bill: "Well you do...[about a minute explaination]."
Joe: "Ohhh, no that's not what I mean, I just want to go to such-and-such airfield."
Bill: "Ohhhh...well just type in [XXX] are you going to get lunch there?"
Joe: "Yeaaahhh, you wanna meet me there?"

This conversation continues for several minutes while we're busily trying to make proper communication calls with our students in the pattern. It took all my patience not to tell them to shut up.

:drool:
 
AirVenture said:
My favorite recent communication SNAFU was in the DFW area. The past few weekends had been pretty soggy, but we finally got a nice clear Saturday. That means every Joe Pilot wants to go up and shake the rust off. There were three of us in the traffic pattern at an uncontrolled field while somebody at another field starts chatting.

Joe: "Hey Bill, who do I get user way points into the GPS?"
Bill: "Well you do...[about a minute explaination]."
Joe: "Ohhh, no that's not what I mean, I just want to go to such-and-such airfield."
Bill: "Ohhhh...well just type in [XXX] are you going to get lunch there?"
Joe: "Yeaaahhh, you wanna meet me there?"

This conversation continues for several minutes while we're busily trying to make proper communication calls with our students in the pattern. It took all my patience not to tell them to shut up.

:drool:
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What's worse? The guy is in the air and has no idea how to use his on-board equipment, or that they wasted valuable air time.
 
I was flying over an airport I used to work at on a non-busy unicom w/ one plane in the pattern. The plane in the pattern had a flight instructor on board that I used to work w/. The conversation goes like this.

Me: Hey Eric, it's James
Eric: Hey James Hows it going
Me: Not bad, Not bad
Eric: Alright man, good to hear from you I'll talk to you later

Before I could say cya, some idiot comes over the freq telling me that I should move my conversation to a telephone.

I ask him why when this is just so much more convenient.
 
The day Michael Jackson died, I was flying into a non-towered airport. It seemed like every pilot within radio range was doing their part to spread the news. During a period of trying to coordinate my pattern entry with another inbound pilot, some jackass decided to tell yet another pilot about the news. It squealed over the position report that I had requested of the other inbound pilot.

I keyed up the mic and said: "I'm sorry, could you say that again? There was someone else on the frequency confessing his love for a dead child molester."
 
Murdoughnut said:
"It's about time" in the most snide manner possible. Look behind me and there's a 172 waiting to taxi behind us.

So naturally I open the window, give the one fingered salute, and call ground...

"St. Pete Ground - Cessna 52633 has a stuck parking break - will need a short delay to resolve it".

Murdoughnut never passes up a chance to put a d-bag in his place :)
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Pretty lame of you on two accounts there. One that you gave him the finger (absolutely uncalled for), and two that you caused an additional delay for the guy just because you were pissed about his comment. You were the inconsiderate one here, regardless of your instructors insistence, so suck it up and get you ass moving, or move out of their way.

Dont think I would be bragging about that type of behavior personally.
 
I've found it's never a win-situation when it comes to useless babble on the frequency. As soon as you make a big deal out of it, you're the guy uselessly babbling and taking up even more waves. I'm of course guilty myself sometimes. Ideally it would never happen, but this is the real world.

To the OP, I really can't stand high-horse type frequency cops. A total waste of energy if you ask me. I used to say "finals," the wrong tail number, wrong airports... we're all human, and we're all students.
 
LiveATC has some really interesting examples on it sometimes about how not to chat on it sometimes. Heard this one a while ago:

Tower: "Cessna 1234, can you take an immediate?"
C172 Pilot: "Huh?"
Tower: "Can you take an immediate?"
C172 Pilot: "Are you calling me an idiot?"
Tower: "Uh no, that's not what I said, but nevermind, hold short."
 
Screaming_Emu said:
man...I thought the title said "unicorn police" and clicked out of curiosity
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The only thing that bothers me on the radio is when a foreigner gets on and totally butchers the English language. I feel bad for ATC, who have to decipher their transmission.
 
I'll take a foreigner butchering the language over a "Ninah one ninah SHOOGA POP's onnuh daaaaawg leg, I say daaaaaaawg leg to finah, at TOOO larry" any day.
 
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