Things at the airport that make you go hmmmm....

z987k said:
Simply placing your hand on the flap lever at the appropriate time usually works without saying anything and bruising no one's ego.

I do know of a person that did an entire 1 hour flight and then when they went to put the flaps in the approach position found that the invisible person in the right seat apparently had already lowered them.
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The joke was that they're already up.
 
Took off with the pitot cover on once......... aborted takeoff and actually shut a 172 down on the runway at an uncontrolled field because the shimmy damper was so bad I thought something serious was wrong. Had only been checked out in it. These both happened when I was a stupid teen.

The most embarrassing incident happened a couple of years ago departing Jack Edwards. After startup, I advance the throttle and Im not moving...ok fine, I know iv left the chocks on the nose wheel. Quick shutdown and hop out to grab the chocks, I look up to see the pimple face linekids laughing at me. :(:mad:
 
texas_pilot said:
I radioed a Piper taxing at ADS early one morning that his tow bar was still attached, he jumped out grabbed it, restarted and mumbled a timid 'thanks'
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"Hmm, their ground service door is open...*keys up* Ship seven-twelve?"
"Yeah, go."
"Your ground service panel is still open, I know they waved you off."
"Ah, thanks...we'll call them back..."

@z987k
 
texas_pilot said:
One evening I found a dipstick all alone on the ramp, it's 402 gone to Hobby, so took it on down on my flight- no harm done.
Only called the other pilot 'dipstick' twice and sure got the 'Stank Eye' in return!
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I once pre-flighted a 402 the next morning after it was flown home over 400 NM, and upon going to check the oil in the right engine discovered no dipstick. Never did find out how much oil was in it...
 
texas_pilot said:
I radioed a Piper taxing at ADS early one morning that his tow bar was still attached, he jumped out grabbed it, restarted and mumbled a timid 'thanks'
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Actually saw a guy a guy take off in a C152 with the tow bar attached. He managed to make it one lap around the patten and land, and through some miracle the tow bar had not touched the prop.
 
Roger Roger said:
Both sleds and Cherokees are prone to nose baggage doors popping open if the pilot isn't meticulous about latching them properly. Haven't had it on one of our sleds yet but on the Cherokee it dang near destroys the fiberglass door. Still not as bad as a chieftain nose bag coming open though.
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From what I'm given to understand, the aft baggage door on the sled is less often problematic but far more severe when it comes open.

BTW... Man, what a day.

-Fox
 
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Coworker - "Yeah I walked the field yesterday, it's bone dry"
Crew Chief - "But it rained last night"
Coworker - "Trust me it's good"

Proceeds to destroy local university's practice field on first landing.
 
Don't know if this has been posted but... baggage doors popping open can be very distracting, whether or not they separate. Killed a CJ crew in Van Nuys in 07:

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20070123X00090&key=1

The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:

The pilot's failure to maintain an adequate airspeed during the initial climb resulting in an inadvertent stall/spin. Contributing to the accident were the second pilots inadequate preflight, failure to properly secure the front baggage door, and the front left baggage door opening in flight, which likely distracted the first pilot.
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