Silly things heard on the radio to/from Oshkosh

In theory too one should listen to 121.5 briefly before shutdown to make sure your own ELT isn't transmitting. There have been cases where people had a hard landing such that the aircraft was OK but they triggered the ELT and then shut down and walked away from an aircraft emitting distress signals.
 
rocketflyer84 said:
In theory too one should listen to 121.5 briefly before shutdown to make sure your own ELT isn't transmitting. There have been cases where people had a hard landing such that the aircraft was OK but they triggered the ELT and then shut down and walked away from their aircraft emitting distress signals.
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yep. Funny how a hard landing will trigger one but frequently a crash will not. Well designed little buggers aren't they?
 
I once heard Chewbaca, followed by a curt "Cherwbaca on guard!"

I also heard someone in a twin say that they'd run out of gas and were going to land in a field.
 
ARFlyer said:
I've started hearing pilot explicitly state their on guard when asking for the nearest controller to avoid the nazis.

I heard one show down that ended with ATC stepping in and yelling at the nazi. The nazi was yelling at a guy trying to figure out what sector freq he needed after a botched handoff. The nazi told the guy that he needed to get a "f***ing AF/D" and to get off guard.
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So that's what people mean by "Guard Nazi." :eek:

Previously, the Nazi reference always seemed like an exaggeration to me, because I'd never heard people be so overbearing about it.

I would have loved to hear what ATC said to the guy.
 
A couple of years ago I listened to a guy in formation with the wrong plane. He literally picked up the wrong plane on departure and joined it in a loose formation for over 30 mins before he realize his mistake. I was laughing out loud, it sounded like a comedy routine, and probably was.
 
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