Bad day for a stuck mike !

So - do airline pilots all jump on the freq and say "STUCK MIC! STUCK MIC!" like the rest of us?
 
Oops. Not a bad idea to look at the transmit lights if you're going to go on a rant like that.
 
jesse said:
Oops. Not a bad idea to look at the transmit lights if you're going to go on a rant like that.
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unfortunately not installed on the 737..poor bastards.... most dont even wear a headset at cruise...I bet many wont now!
 
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I don't get all the outrage over what he said. Tying up the mic was the real issue. So the guy isn't attracted to other guys, overweight women, or old women. What's the problem?
 
Tower and ground at KABQ had a stuck microphone once. Before I decided what to do, my CFI contacted them on clearance delivery frequency, which was free, and they fixed it.
 
Sounds like a reasonable conversation....Chicago is filled with Grannies and gays, right?

:facepalm:
 
I am a Flight Medic on helicopter in a Fire Rescue service. I wish I had the tapes from some of the open mikes we get.:yikes:
 
Come to think of it, the one time I flew out of O'Hare the flight attendent was gay. Or so I assumed.
 
I flew a guys plane back to his airport from our airport, which was just a hop. Both airports were uncontrolled. I could hear a couple planes in the pattern doing touch and goes. as I approached, but no one was responding to my transmissions. I finally figured out that I was receiving but not transmitting. I flew around a little outside the pattern, listening to everyone else, then slipped into the pattern between the two when there was plenty of space. Boy, I got an ear full. I was just saying to myself sorry guys, "sorry guys, just gotta get down here and I'll stay out of your way." Anyway, the pilot who picked me up had been flying with a student the day before. He told me that the owner of the plane had chewed him out the day before for not listening to the radio and not responding to the other guys transmissions. Anyway, it was pretty interesting to the hear. the comments when I popped into the patten un-announced. It was not pleasant for anyone.
 
LOL...the sad part is he just "spoke the truth" and is going to get nailed for it. I mean, is that not what we are supposed to strive for, truthfulness?
 
tdager said:
LOL...the sad part is he just "spoke the truth" and is going to get nailed for it. I mean, is that not what we are supposed to strive for, truthfulness?
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If he was my employee and he was "speaking the truth" I would have fired him immediately. No BS diversity training. What good is that going to do?
 
So your employee can't talk about the lack of desirable companionship. Wow.
 
EdFred said:
So your employee can't talk about the lack of desirable companionship. Wow.
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Having that much lack of respect for co-workers is a toxic situation which I would not tolerate, especially within a crew.
 
Everskyward said:
Having that much lack of respect for co-workers is a toxic situation which I would not tolerate, especially within a crew.
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Maybe they need to hire a younger and more inshape crew. :)
Unless SWA has a don't poop in the company pool policy...
 
I'll give them some diverse opinions!

:D
 
EdFred said:
I'll give them some diverse opinions!

:D
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:rofl:

Full disclosure is that I have never worked for company that even had diversity training other than a line in a manual so I have never been subjected to it. However, I can't imagine that it is much use for people who are already at an age to have their opinions fully formed like this guy was. On the other hand I think a company has every right to dictate people's behavior on the job especially as it relates to co-workers. It's not as if he was talking about some strangers he met in a bar. I'm not naive enough to believe that there are not lots of conversations of this nature but this guy got caught. Boo-hoo for him.
 
Everskyward said:
this guy got caught. Boo-hoo for him.
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Sort of how I feel about it, what he said doesn't bother me so much as he should have known better. Like the control and kid at JFK (or where ever it was) was it a problem, nope but it still shows a lack of judgment for not considering the backlash
 
Skylane81E said:
Sort of how I feel about it, what he said doesn't bother me so much as he should have known better. Like the control and kid at JFK (or where ever it was) was it a problem, nope but it still shows a lack of judgment for not considering the backlash
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It's not like he knew he was transmitting. I'm no airline pilot but I assume you get to know your crew very well and sometimes with people you know very well, when 99.999% of the time the conversation is private, you tend to say some rather politically incorrect things.
 
jesse said:
It's not like he knew he was transmitting. I'm no airline pilot but I assume you get to know your crew very well and sometimes with people you know very well, when 99.999% of the time the conversation is private, you tend to say some rather politically incorrect things.
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It isn't that private, although it's very easy to forget that you are being recorded.
 
Everskyward said:
If he was my employee and he was "speaking the truth" I would have fired him immediately. No BS diversity training. What good is that going to do?
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+1...

Intentional or not, he made statements he shouldn't have in a public forum. Private, I don't really care what he says - but it wasn't private, he only thought it was.
 
ive jumpseated in some mainline cockpits where the conversation is on par with the locker room in high school...
 
Everskyward said:
It isn't that private, although it's very easy to forget that you are being recorded.
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It isn't. But after thousands of hours of where for all intents and purposes it was private people will then start to act like it.
 
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