Tuesday, September 28, 2010

True Pilot Stories

These are real stories!!!!!!



Tower: "Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6 miles!"
Delta 351: "Give us another hint! We have digital watches!"

One day, the pilot of a Cherokee 180 was told by the tower to hold short of the runway while a DC-8 landed. The DC-8 landed, rolled out, turned around, and taxied back past the Cherokee.
Some quick-witted comedian in the DC-8 crew got on the radio and said, "What a cute little plane. Did you make it yourself?"
Our hero, the Cherokee pilot, who was not about to let the insult go by came back with a real zinger:  "I made it out of DC-8 parts.  Another landing like that and I'll have enough parts for another one."

There's a story about the military pilot calling for a priority landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit peaked." Air Traffic Control told the fighter jock that he was number two behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down. "Ah," the pilot remarked," the dreaded seven-engine approach."

A student became lost during a solo cross-country flight. While attempting to locate the aircraft on radar, ATC asked, "What was your last known position?"
Student: "When I was number one for take-off".

Taxiing down the tarmac, the DC-10 abruptly stopped, turned around and returned to the gate.
After an hour-long wait, it finally took off.  A concerned passenger asked the flight attendant, "What was the problem?"
"The pilot was bothered by a noise he heard in the engine," explained the flight attendant, "and it took us a while to find a new pilot."

A man telephoned the United Airline office at Denver International Airport and asked, "How long does it take to fly to Colorado Springs?"
The clerk said, "Just a minute." (my favorite)
"Thank you," the man said and hung up.

Tower: "Flight 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 degrees."
Flight 2341: "But Center, we are at 35,000 feet. How much noise can we make up here?"
Tower: "Sir, have you ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727?"

The passenger piled his cases on the scale at the United counter in New York and said to the clerk, "I'm flying to Los Angeles. I want the square case to go to Denver, and the two round ones to go to Seattle."
"I'm sorry, sir, but we can't do that."
"Why not? You did it the last time !!!

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Llewellyn Devitt 24 August at 12:28
Engine Failure after take off. Back in 1982 a friend invited us for Sunday lunch on a plot on the banks of the Vaal dam in Deneysville. a friend of mine and our wife's rented a 172 from Witbank Flying club ZS_ILI, we took off from Witbank, flew over Secunda and the Vaal dam, and landed in Dennysville.we had a enjoyable day and a lovely lunch. At 4:O clock we decided to go home. I had a gut feeling that something is not right but took off anyway , about 30 vt. above the ground I lost 60 % of engine power but still had runway beneath me and decided to put her down. Unfortunately we ran out of runway there wasn't enough. we hit some rocks and broke the nose wheel off. the plain then tipped over stood up on her nose for a split second, I thought we were going to fall back on her undercarriage. the next minute we went over onto her back. I remember telling the pax that they were upside down and had to hold onto the roof before loosing the safety belt, and then I forgot to do it and fell on my nut. the door was jammed , I couldn't open it, I gave it one kick off its hinges I don't know were the strength came from but I was out, Basil my friend crawled through the window till today I don't know how he got through that window because he is bigger than the window. they retrieved the plane and repair it, we actually flew it again The problem was an oil pipe knuckle that cracked and sprayed oil onto the magneto. About 10 years ago I opened the Sunday papers and saw ILI had another engine failure some were close to Johannesburg and the pilot was actually killed. things happens so quick sometimes you haven't got time to think, especially on take off.