things that have happened.....wish they didnt thread

[goughy]

Time to share the stories of mistakes and misjudgments whether anonymous or not! the ability to share these will hopefully help others to avoid the same mistakes! id love to hear some especially regarding the x country trips
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NAVIGATION: PASS

[HaggisHunter]

Misjudgements:

Too much G&T on Saturday night!


Mistakes:

Have you met my ex?
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CPL-IR(H), FI(H) - R22, R44, EC120, AS355, S-92, VW Polo.

[PilotWolf]

[goughy]

too true! realised after i posted that it was too general! yeah i do mean helicopter related
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HUMAN PERFORMANCE: PASS
NAVIGATION: PASS

[tegwin]

hmmm.... I keep making the same mistake and not learning from it...

Accidentally letting a burp slip out... turning your head away from Pax, only to realise they can hear it in full stereo over the intercom even with your head turned away...

I blame it on the altitude... or the sarnis at the airfield bar!

[Elvis]

At least you didn't let the gas pressure build up and have it come out the other end of the digestive track.
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[animalsticks]

i bumped my head getting in a r22 yesterday, really hurt. left a bump. hope nobody else does it...

on a more serious note heard someone once thought the ASI had broke and then noticed the slip ball and strings... innocent whistle...
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[Dolphin]

Mistakes due to lack of experience: the right amount
Mistakes due to stupidity: some
Major mistakes: one...almost killed me
I've learned that there's always a problem waiting behind the corner so I rely on my experience, my common sense...and pray that everything works out!!! :
I think that the old motto is still very appropriate:

THERE ARE OLD PILOTS AND THERE ARE BOLD PILOTS BUT THERE ARE NO OLD BOLD PILOTS

[veeany]

A couple to start with

Ended up night VMC with no night rating, in non night aircraft years ago, back to site I operated from every day. Made an approach having thought about what was on the ground, it turns out the lights I aimed for where at the bottom of the pond and not on the makeshift hangar. Ended OK, act of stupidity which I got away with.

Ferried a 300 back to base on 1 mag once [alone] after the other started to make the engine run rough out in the field, it was a f**cking dumb thing to do, particularly as the boss was such an arse, while I was doing that he was bitching about me bringing one of his precious helicopters back the day before with a mag problem that they could'nt find so it must have been my faulty diagnosis, it was the same aircraft, when I landed and switch to the defective mag the engine stopped !

Landed a 109 with a mate as co-pilot, left wheel on the ground start leaning a bit too far to the right, turns out what looked like grass even when we were on it was in fact a pond with long grass growing out of the top of it and we (I) couldn't see the water due to its low level. We relocated the aircraft and went back to look and it was only then we saw the water. The site was an abandoned house which the boss was looking to buy, hence the overgrown(ish) nature of the place.

And people wonder why I get on my soapbox so often, I cannot claim to be sin free, but I do learn quickly , some of these things were due to lack of knowledge, some perhaps to overconfidence or familiarity with the type. It is very diffiicult to asses yourself.

More to come later.

GS

[Jonno]

I can relate to the pond thing,i once made an approach in a really bad snowstorm to what i thought was a nice snow covered field,but then realized at the last second it was a barely frozen lake.Could have been quite ugly.