piisfish 140 #1 October 18, 2012 not always ingenious though scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #2 October 18, 2012 Quote not always ingenious though Don't you lump us all in the same batch! Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #3 October 18, 2012 I remain unconvinced it is really an engineer."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #4 October 18, 2012 Quote not always ingenious though But it would be cool driving the train. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
normiss 910 #5 October 18, 2012 or wrecking the train, as the case may be... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #6 October 18, 2012 Quote or wrecking the train, as the case may be... hell yeah, we watch a lot of train wrecks around here, don't we? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Southern_Man 0 #7 October 18, 2012 Quote But it would be cool driving the train. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0HM0RtRv-E"What if there were no hypothetical questions?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #8 October 18, 2012 Quote Quote not always ingenious though But it would be cool driving the train. Shouldn't you be talking on your CB?Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theonlyski 8 #9 October 18, 2012 Quote Quote Quote not always ingenious though But it would be cool driving the train. Shouldn't you be talking on your CB? Breaker 1-9"I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #10 October 18, 2012 Naw, I have a trainee today. I'm sitting behind him watching he run the planes around. More fun than a low pull contest. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Niki1 2 #11 October 19, 2012 Quote Quote But it would be cool driving the train. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0HM0RtRv-E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSrEcPdA0hEMost of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #12 October 19, 2012 Quote Naw, I have a trainee today. I'm sitting behind him watching he run the planes around. More fun than a low pull contest. But seriously, don't you ever get the urge once in a while to start talking on the radio like a trucker on CB just to get a reaction from the pilots."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #13 October 19, 2012 Quote But seriously, don't you ever get the urge once in a while to start talking on the radio like a trucker on CB just to get a reaction from the pilots. Nope, it's all been done before, back in the "Convoy" days. Besides, ATC talk is waaay cooler than that. I have been busted for chatting with a pilot or two when it's slow, maybe they're flying a cool warbird, homebuilt or something, sometimes just saying Hi to someone I know flying thru my sector. I couldn't care less because I do the rest of the job really well. The other day the remarks in a flight plan said "Pilot in command- Krist Noveselic". I just had to ask "Weren't you in a band?" He laughed and said "Uh, yeah, I don't know if you ever heard of Nirvana, though." I was telling him thanks for all the good music when some lost Skyhawk came on frequency declaring an emergency. I thought "Great, I've been BS'ing on the radio with the bass player from Nirvana and now they're gonna pull this tape too, to review an emergency." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #14 October 19, 2012 Quote I was telling him thanks for all the good music when some lost Skyhawk came on frequency declaring an emergency. I thought "Great, I've been BS'ing on the radio with the bass player from Nirvana and now they're gonna pull this tape too, to review an emergency." I think you have a reasonable defense on that one! Especially since you're in the Seattle Center."There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #15 October 19, 2012 Quote I think you have a reasonable defense on that one! Especially since you're in the Seattle Center. That's right! And I was wearing flannel and a Melvins t-shirt at the time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theonlyski 8 #16 October 19, 2012 Quote I was telling him thanks for all the good music when some lost Skyhawk came on frequency declaring an emergency. I thought "Great, I've been BS'ing on the radio with the bass player from Nirvana and now they're gonna pull this tape too, to review an emergency." Well, guess ya better not let him crash! "I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
godfrog 2 #17 October 20, 2012 Bacck in '95 Jan 01 I was on an IFR flight plan headed for FCA, there was a little chatter on the radio, a little something about a missing flight plan for a Canadian life flight when this really sweet female voice came on asking for the football scores, radio went to dead silence and I got this little video in my head of the ATC controlers scrambling to find out the game scores Experience is a difficult teacher, she gives you the test first and the lesson afterward Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #18 October 20, 2012 Quote Bacck in '95 Jan 01 I was on an IFR flight plan headed for FCA, there was a little chatter on the radio, a little something about a missing flight plan for a Canadian life flight when this really sweet female voice came on asking for the football scores, radio went to dead silence and I got this little video in my head of the ATC controlers scrambling to find out the game scores I imagine she got anything she wanted. Now we have google right at the supervisor's desk. It's made that a lot easier. We used to get planes with ADF asking for the best frequency to listen to the ball games. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
godfrog 2 #19 October 20, 2012 I used to be able to fly to any radio station, learned when I was a student,AM radio station right off the end of the runway....Experience is a difficult teacher, she gives you the test first and the lesson afterward Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,196 #20 October 20, 2012 Quote Quote Bacck in '95 Jan 01 I was on an IFR flight plan headed for FCA, there was a little chatter on the radio, a little something about a missing flight plan for a Canadian life flight when this really sweet female voice came on asking for the football scores, radio went to dead silence and I got this little video in my head of the ATC controlers scrambling to find out the game scores I imagine she got anything she wanted. Now we have google right at the supervisor's desk. It's made that a lot easier. We used to get planes with ADF asking for the best frequency to listen to the ball games. Now we have Sirius XM in our planes, with a menu that scrolls across the GPS screen. (I still have an ADF but rarely turn it on any more).... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 16 #21 October 20, 2012 Quote Now we have Sirius XM in our planes, with a menu that scrolls across the GPS screen. (I still have an ADF but rarely turn it on any more). The technology in even light aircraft is super these days. I call traffic to Cessnas and they say "I have him on TCAS, searching." Makes me feel almost useless. And with all the GPS I hardly ever get a lost pilot anymore. Had one the other day but that was because he had a new GPS unit and couldn't figure out how to use it. Do you have Nexrad weather in your Mooney? We have it on our scopes and I spend considerable radio time calling precip info to pilots when they often have the same display right in front of them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #22 October 21, 2012 Quote I was telling him thanks for all the good music when some lost Skyhawk came on frequency declaring an emergency. I thought "Great, I've been BS'ing on the radio with the bass player from Nirvana and now they're gonna pull this tape too, to review an emergency." If it's bad, it always happens at the most inopportune time. My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
