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Offline Frank N. O.

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Oh Wait, That's My Airspeed
« on: October 09, 2007, 12:14:03 PM »
 ::rofl:: And yet another Chuck-Is-That-You moment! This is just too funny, but now I have to ask, have anyone ever heard of someone mistaking the airspeed for the heading?

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Re: Oh Wait, That's My Airspeed
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2007, 05:04:34 PM »
NO Frank, but once I mistook flying airplanes with a real job ;D

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Re: Oh Wait, That's My Airspeed
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2007, 05:16:49 PM »
That was a good one, actually get paid to fly!?  ::rofl::

Frank

P.S. In case anyone's wondering then the strips I posted about are posted on Trade-A-Plane, and there are more great ones too!
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Re: Oh Wait, That's My Airspeed
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2007, 05:54:19 PM »
Yeah Frank. You found our secret.
TAP pays extra to always get the latest and prevously unpublished strip first....
AND they are usually more technical than the ones online because they are drawn for strictly an avation audience.

As for the heading vs airspeed thing:

I had the assistant forman of one of the Helitack crews I used to work with read my radio frequencies instead of the coordinates on the GPS for her position check.
Pam: "Dispatch helicopter 530 current position is 122.9 by 123.025"
Dispatch: "Roger"

I was wondering where she got the numbers from when it finally hit me. On top of that she was a "mapping specialist" .....supposedly....  ::loony::
so you'd think she would have noticed the coordinates not starting with N32 .... or something like that
My mechanic was laughing his @$$ off on the ground especailly because dispatch didn't catch it either.

I was shocked. They would have never found us if something happened.
And since there was no arguing with that woman (long story), I just turned her transmit to some aux schannel that's not turned on and let her think she's still talking
while I was making the position calls myself on the right channel.  ;) ;D
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Re: Oh Wait, That's My Airspeed
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2007, 06:04:53 PM »
Mike:  ::eek::

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Re: Oh Wait, That's My Airspeed
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2007, 01:37:00 AM »
As for the heading vs airspeed thing:
I had the assistant forman of one of the Helitack crews I used to work with read my radio frequencies instead of the coordinates on the GPS for her position check.
Pam: "Dispatch helicopter 530 current position is 122.9 by 123.025"
Dispatch: "Roger"

I was wondering where she got the numbers from when it finally hit me. On top of that she was a "mapping specialist" .....supposedly....  ::loony::

I was shocked. They would have never found us if something happened.
And since there was no arguing with that woman (long story), I just turned her transmit to some aux schannel that's not turned on and let her think she's still talking
while I was making the position calls myself on the right channel.  ;) ;D

Oh MAN, Mikey!!!  You COULDA put a little warning label on this one...  I mean, maybe if you had, I wouldn't have just spewed out half my cup of tea, reading this!!!!!!!!!!!!  HOLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE   CRAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP, that is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    ::loony::

AMAZING.   ::loony::  What a KNOTHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!   I hope the crew presented her with a little, bronzed replica of a comm radio at the end of the season...  That's just unreal. 

I gotta go clean up this mess now...    ::rofl::

Don't make me come back there!!!!

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Re: Oh Wait, That's My Airspeed
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2007, 04:04:50 AM »
On a very boring loo-oo-oo-ong flight one day, going to a fire FAR FAR away, we were sitting there in silence, listening to the drone...  when the spotter suddenly howled in laughter... 

After I don't even KNOW how many years of riding in the front of an airplane, for the very first time he spied the little knob on the cheap DG on his side...  which was printed "PULL FOR QUICK ERECT".  The burst of noise startled the hell out of me, I had NO idea why he suddenly erupted into uncontrollable laughter.  He was just pointing at the panel, giggling away.

And, he didn't believe me when I told him it had been there, all along.   :D
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Re: Oh Wait, That's My Airspeed
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2007, 11:15:41 PM »
And he was supposed to be your spotter ?  Another case of actual vs. apparent age disparity. IF I knew the maintenance guys REAL well I'd tell them he kept playing with that particular knob and it started acting up. & let them take it from there.( Personally, chewing out folks who can't keep their fingers off "my" airplanes' instruments, is one of my very favorite things to do. )
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Re: Oh Wait, That's My Airspeed
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2007, 06:41:34 PM »
This guy is the BEST spotter I have ever had....  he just doesn't particularly like flying...  and never was one of those guys to mess with anything that wasn't in his domain......  I'd kill to have 20 more just like him!   |:)\

And, even worse, a guy like that, who doesn't even really enjoy the airplane part of his job, knows way more about CRM and a busy cockpit than 90% of the so-called "Commercial Pilots" I have had for copilots doing science jobs....  ARRRRGGGGHHHH......  GRRR-RRRRRRRR......  That spotter, ANY DAY, makes my workload WAY less... 

I guess they just hatch Pilots out somewhere and then they all migrate to the airport.....  don't get me wrong, I have had a few who were SUPERB...  but, in general, I see guys who have a fresh commercial and can't even talk on the RADIO.....  and I do mean they are UNABLE to do the most basic radio procedures....  It just doesn't make sense to me....   ::loony::     ::banghead::
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Re: Oh Wait, That's My Airspeed
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2007, 06:48:17 PM »
::rofl:: And yet another Chuck-Is-That-You moment! This is just too funny, but now I have to ask, have anyone ever heard of someone mistaking the airspeed for the heading?

Frank
Actually, I just remembered that a one of our Flight Instructors told us about mixing up airspeed and altitude when he was a student loooong time ago.
I also had something similar happen to me. One day, I was sitting in my glider, coming in for landing and, as usual, pulled out the airbrakes and noticed that I was a little too low.
Well, it happens, my FI told me to retract them, I kept on pulling, he told me again and I thought 'What the ... does he want, that's what I'm doing . . .'
After a great landing (the aircraft was used many more times thereafter) he asked me 'Tell me, what were you thinking' and I was like 'Well, I have absolutely NO idea'