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01-12-2008, 03:24 PM

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FlyJSH

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Originally Posted by hotelmode

One time I landed gear up without a landing clearance in prohibited airspace after running out of fuel in solid IMC without an instrument flight plan filed.

That was pretty stupid. ;-)

Me too..... but I was in south Texas and just kept answering all the questions with "?Que? No hablo ingles." They put me on a bus, gave me a baloney sandwich, and shipped me to Mexico. A day later I walked home... no harm no foul.

01-12-2008, 03:45 PM

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Slice

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01-12-2008, 05:10 PM

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LineTroll

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Taking a checkride prematurely

01-12-2008, 09:16 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by hotelmode

One time I landed gear up without a landing clearance in prohibited airspace after running out of fuel in solid IMC without an instrument flight plan filed.

That was pretty stupid. ;-)

I do that on all my checkrides, it always impresses the examiners how I can get out of really really bad situations. I also always challenge them to a game of 'runway lights', where you take turns seeing how many runway lights you can roll over on your t/o and landing with your nose wheel. To spice things up, try to count them blindfolded at 135 knots.

01-12-2008, 10:27 PM

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My most embarrassing moment: I threw up on a commercial flight once. There is a good reason, but no one will believe me.

01-12-2008, 10:31 PM

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hotelmode

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did somebody bump up the turbulence control knob?

01-12-2008, 11:55 PM

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Used the wrong callsign and confused ATC, then realised the mistake I made and called using the right one... Oops

01-13-2008, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by schwanm

Used the wrong callsign and confused ATC, then realised the mistake I made and called using the right one... Oops

That's not such a bad thing. Try constantly switching between JGO 47 and JGO 48 then CLUE or DUKE something or other. Using the wrong call sign can easilly happen.

Funny thing about JGO 47 (pronounced Jay Go). That was assigned by the USAF to my Army company for flights to the Balkins (not an ICAO assigned call sign). European controllers new that JG ment Joint Guardian and the O ment US. It wasn't until some CIA plane stole our call sign and flew over Austria with terrorists on board and the call sign (which according to ICAO belonged to the defunct Canadian carrier Jets Go) wound up in a front page story in a London newspaper that we stopped using JGO. I learned a lot about ICAO call signs and USAF theater call signs creaping out of their intended corner of the world that week.

01-13-2008, 09:27 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by hotelmode

One time I landed gear up without a landing clearance in prohibited airspace after running out of fuel in solid IMC without an instrument flight plan filed.

That was pretty stupid. ;-)

Guess you learned from that one.............