To all CFI's: Stupidest student questions.

at1024 said:
I had a student tell me that the reason we check the engine oil during the preflight is to ensure that we have enough hydraulic fluid to operate the landing gear. And this is in a fixed gear Cessna!

I was just like righhhhht......
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Must be working.
 
- when you say "turn right heading 090" why is it called 090?

- you know how there are 360 degrees in a circle?

- no.
 
Soul Brotha' said:
I don't know if this goes as stupid more than loony bin. Back when I was a CFI, I had a CommSEL student who would add an extra 150lbs on his flights. This was after about our 10th flight together. So I look over his W&B and asked him what's the extra weight for. "Oh, that's for my friend Zarnox." Me, "?/Que?" Student, "Yeah he helps me on my maneuvers and gives me extra aft C.G." Okay let's go flying! What response could I have said after that?
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Zarnox...
 
Student: Sir, I think we blew a tire on landing.
Me: I wondering why the airplane was shaking like crazy and you came to a stop on the runway with the nose 60 degrees left of centerline. You failed your lesson because jetblue with a 90 degree tire was able to stay on the centerline.

Of course I was teasing.
 
GODWIT said:
ok... I had an international student and I helped him to register on IACRA...he had to look at his passport because he did not know ....ready everyone.....his date of birth.
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This is kind of understandable actually. in some countries emphasis on birthdays isn't like it is for us here, it's just never mentioned again or celebrated. They also may not use the same calender, or number system. So for this student, this may very well have been like a homework assignment, learned it once then forgot all about it.
 
GlenA said:
This is kind of understandable actually. in some countries emphasis on birthdays isn't like it is for us here, it's just never mentioned again or celebrated. They also may not use the same calender, or number system. So for this student, this may very well have been like a homework assignment, learned it once then forgot all about it.
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When they hear about the free ice cream cone on your birthday at 31 Flavors they seem to adapt to our calendar real fast.
 
The following is not really stupid, but it was hilarious. I was conducting the first brief with a PPL student from Europe. Her name was Titziana.
Me: "How do I pronounce your name?"
Her: "Teet-zee-ah-na. But you can call me Teets"
Me: I'm not calling you that.
 
Rumpel said:
The following is not really stupid, but it was hilarious. I was conducting the first brief with a PPL student from Europe. Her name was Titziana.
Me: "How do I pronounce your name?"
Her: "Teet-zee-ah-na. But you can call me Teets"
Me: I'm not calling you that.
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I think you might win the award!
 
Rumpel said:
The following is not really stupid, but it was hilarious. I was conducting the first brief with a PPL student from Europe. Her name was Titziana.
Me: "How do I pronounce your name?"
Her: "Teet-zee-ah-na. But you can call me Teets"
Me: I'm not calling you that.
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Was she a looker?

And lol@ watermelon.
 
Rumpel said:
The following is not really stupid, but it was hilarious. I was conducting the first brief with a PPL student from Europe. Her name was Titziana.
Me: "How do I pronounce your name?"
Her: "Teet-zee-ah-na. But you can call me Teets"
Me: I'm not calling you that.
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FTW.
 
hambone said:
Hey Frank, how long have you been flying out of Chino? Have you ever met a pilot named Boris from Croatia?
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I moved to Chino from Corona the day before the flood last December. Never heard of him.

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On an intro flight I go over the preflight of a 172 with the student in detail for about 15 minutes. At the end I ask if he has any questions... he replies "How many engines does this plane have?"
 
And two days ago I was doing some instruction/babysitting on one of our new PICs, we were at FL200 with a cabin altitude of 5000ft and very close to the max differential pressure. I was like "umm you may want to raise the cabin altitude to around 7000", he looks at the guage, looks back at me totally confused and says "why?"
 
Rumpel said:
The following is not really stupid, but it was hilarious. I was conducting the first brief with a PPL student from Europe. Her name was Titziana.
Me: "How do I pronounce your name?"
Her: "Teet-zee-ah-na. But you can call me Teets"
Me: I'm not calling you that.
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:rotfl:
 
Piperflyer said:
And two days ago I was doing some instruction/babysitting on one of our new PICs, we were at FL200 with a cabin altitude of 5000ft and very close to the max differential pressure. I was like "umm you may want to raise the cabin altitude to around 7000", he looks at the guage, looks back at me totally confused and says "why?"
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If he actually understood that the system wouldn't exceed max differential regardless of controller setting, then he had a good point.
 
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