Did you get bitten by Friday 13th?

went flying on a cross country to pick up my repaired plane. the flight home with the wife and I. She starts to complain saying it is way noisy what's wrong? I looked down and she forgot to turn on her anr. Whew crisis averted right..well 5 minutes later my light speeds battery died and it was the most annoying flight home because of it. So yeah Friday the 13th got me. hahaha
 
You have less than a month to wait for the next one :D
 
13th? Friday? Heck, I didn't even know it was Friday. NOR the 13th. Just another day in the training center.
 
Here is my story not a horror story. I took a trip on Friday 13th with my wife to go look at a property we're interested in. Somehow it didn't click in my head that Saturday was Valentine's Day (I hate how it is so commercialized so refuse to "celebrate" it). The day before I was going to arrive at the FBO (in Apalachicola FL) I called them to organize a rental car... They just laughed at me and said forget it everything they have was booked a long time ago. Of course no taxis in Apalachicola. The nearest option for me was to fly to Tallahasee and then drive back to my destination. So after all that the plane trip was three hours followed by a two hour car trip in a smoked in chevy. We stayed at a B&B in Carabelle where at 1 AM we got to enjoy a detailed conversation some dude had to his buddy about football while squeezing one out on the adjacent toilet (which was probably two feet from our head with a paper thin wall in between). We tolerated it for a while then I suggested to my wife that we have a very loud and vocal session to let him know how thin the walls are.:lol: Not quite the peaceful flying weekend I had planned.
 
My CFI started the day with an alternator failure in one airplane. Then a brake failure in another causing a short run off a taxiway. Our flight was fairly uneventful except for a little windshear incident on final. Nothing to crazy but it makes you wonder!
 
Agronomist said:
fairly uneventful except for a little windshear incident on final.
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Same here, I just didn't want to start the thread with that. :) Hit wind shear just crossing the threshold at maybe 20ft and dropped it in like a total newb. Didn't catch it fast enough (power was all the way out already) but at least I didn't break anything. (I expected at least a blown tire)
Yet the wife said that she will fly with me again. :lol: She's a trooper.
 
My wifes birthday is on 11 February so at least I only have to shop once for both days. My only problem is remembering not to get the cards mixed up.

Was last Friday also the 13th? When was Friday? What day is today? Where am I at?

Does anyone really know what time it is..????
 
The clutch in my old truck died halfway to work on Friday. Limped a while in 2nd, managed to get it into 3rd for a faster limp. No car payment directly supports my aviation addiction.

It was the ninth consecutive day we couldn't get the equipment at work to run right. So I spent an additional 22 hours over the weekend getting it running. Now it's good. But 12 hours of Valentine's Day was in that building . . .
 
Okay, we had another Friday 13th and I completely forgot about it.
Does anybody have any aviation horror stories (or bad-luck stories) from last Friday?
 
Friday the 13th lived up to its name this year for me.

I am still a student pilot, so I decided to get in an hour of solo practice. Got permission to fly, took off in calm winds. Did one touch and go, and then went out to work on 45 deg turns and stalls. When I returned to the airport about 30 minutes later the winds had gone to 16g24 and about 30+ degrees off the runway. At about 10 feet up I decided on a go around because I could not keep lined up.

So as I climb out my phone in the back starts blowing up. Text, phone call, text, text, phone call. No way am I going to try and do anything with the phone, but it is on my mind because why is someone trying that hard to contact me. I am thinking injured kid, my Dad is getting sicker, wife in car accident... who knows but it must be something major.

Get the plane down on the second try, and not even a bad landing. Get off the runway and into parking area and grab the phone in a panic because two more texts have come in. The text is from my wife and says "YOU REALLY REALLY REALLY NEED TO CALL ME, MAYBE EVEN BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE AIRPORT." So now I am even more upset. Turns out she hit a curb in the parking lot and flattened a tire. That was it. All that mess for a piece of rubber, no damage to the car, and most importantly no damage to her.

Final results $150 for a new tire, a beer for me to calm down, and an atta-boy from my CFI for getting the plane down while exceeding my cross wind endorsement through no fault of my own. Next Friday the 13th I stay home and spend time playing computer games instead.
 
I had a checkride scheduled for that afternoon that ended up being canceled for weather. I was disappointed, but left the next day with the new paper temporary cert, so... other than costing me another night in a hotel away from home, I can't complain too much.
 
I had a birthday ... but nothing bad happened besides that...
 
I had a somewhat good day. I was walking my dog Jackson when a black cat crossed our path. Jackson took off after the dang feline pulling me along with him under a ladder that I banged my head on. This caused the ladder to fall over crashing into this giant mirror. The glare from the broken glass on the sidewalk then blinded this lady on the 13th floor balcony of the Lucky Horseshoe Hotel causing her to fall to the ground, her fall only broken by the guy who just walked out of the hotel with an already opened umbrella. Well, the cat got away and so Jackson took his obligatory dump in the grass by the sidewalk. Being the good citizen that I am, I whipped out my doggie poop bag, bent over to pick up the poop when what did I see? A four leaf clover!!! What a lucky day!
 
Friday the 13th? I soloed a kid, 17 years old, for his first solo on a day with gusty winds, his parents and grandparents who came out against his wishes to watch "just in case", and signed another guy off to fly a warbird after another 2 hours of dual that morning. It was a GOOD day. :)
 
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Friday the 13th? I soloed a kid, 17 years old, for his first solo on a day with gusty winds, his parents and grandparents who came out against his wishes to watch "just in case", and signed another guy off to fly a warbird after another 2 hours of dual that morning. It was a GOOD day. :)
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What type of warbird?
 
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