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Funny questions that a pilot or builder has been asked?
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 2:13 pm
by David
I thought I would start a thread we all could relate too. I have had may questions asked re: the building of a plane and just as a owner and pilot of a small plane.
"When are you gonna FLY that thing?"
My answer: "Not before it's ready and out of the living room.
Then the next Question is how you going to get it out of the house and are you going to fly it to the airport.
My answer: " Oops I didn't think of that - I don't know" - laugh and then explain
“What do you do when you get low on fuel?”
My answer: With a very serious look and no smile “fill it up”
Guys I'm sure each of you have also had your share of questions - share them
Re: Funny questions that a pilot or builder has been asked?
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 3:37 pm
by Jack Tyler
A recent one I saw on AvWeb:
TraCon Controller to Pilot: Grumman 405, what is your position?
Grumman 405: Fiscally conservative, socially pretty liberal - pause - and 5 DME from SEQUE.
Re: Funny questions that a pilot or builder has been asked?
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 4:56 pm
by Merlinspop
Bought a airplane magazine at a bookstore once and the young clerk asked if I was a pilot. When I answered in the affirmative, she got very excited and asked breathlessly...."Do you know John Travolta?"
Re: Funny questions that a pilot or builder has been asked?
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:31 pm
by Nomore767
ATC :- " NXXXX say your your intentions?"
Foreign student pilot :- "Vell, first I get my Private license, then mebbe I do da Commercial and my instrument rating, den I return
to Germany so to complete more flying".
ATC :- "Very nice. What are your intentions....in the next FIVE MINUTES?".
Re: Funny questions that a pilot or builder has been asked?
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:37 pm
by Nomore767
Holding for O'Hare....
ATC :- "(Airline) 123 squawk ident"
Airliner :- "(Chicken noises) 'Ident, Ident, Ident!!"
ATC :- "Very well, (Airline) 123 continue holding for another 15 minutes, advise when you have your problem resolved"
Re: Funny questions that a pilot or builder has been asked?
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:42 pm
by Nomore767
Blonde:- "Mister, what's the propeller for?"
Pilot:- "That tells me that the engine is running"
Blonde :- Why does it turn so fast?
Pilot:- "Because if it stayed still then the fuselage would turn so fast I'd get sick"
Blonde :- "If it did, how would you get in?"
Re: Funny questions that a pilot or builder has been asked?
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 6:55 pm
by David
LMAO
Re: Funny questions that a pilot or builder has been asked?
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 10:47 pm
by zaitcev
Japanese flight students tend to be the better Asian students that you'd want to be assigned. Although there was that guy in one of IASCO's King Airs that came up on Oakland Center reporting VFR at 19.5 requesting flight following. Oakland came back with an incredulous, "19.5? You can't be there!" To which JAL replied, "No, we can. This SUPER KingAir!"
(seen at Purple Board in the Asiana 214 thread)