We are going to fly from there a short hop to Edwards in Gulf Shores.
I am serious nervous.
My wife hops in the right seat with our Golden Retriever almost out of his sedative in the back.
I successfully call for taxi clearance, successfully call for take off clearance, and about three minutes into the flight:
I decided maybe I ought to contact clearance...with more than impatience, he said "Did you try to contact me?". "Yes sir, I must have some radio problems".
"You stay at this altitude!".
The moral of the story is that Pilots learn to tell fibs when they screw up.
Finally, when I got back home and told 'Mommy", I got serious training on clearances flying through Class B air space as in DFW Airport.
LOL :)
I am famillar with the pilot fib to cover up errors.... I dealt with fighter jocks...
We had one that it was his first "fleet 2v2 training with our sister squadron. He took of got airborne and was engaged with the "enemy" but could not get his AIM-9 to lock up or work properly.
needless to say he landed proceed directly into the ordanence shop with the maintiance slip demanding that we investigate and fix what we screwed up (or so he thought we screwed up.)
Needless to say I went out check the missile over and the weapons system.. ran diagnostics and found nothing wrong.
The pilot continued to sit in our work center and berate us. At that point I turned around and call the other pilots involved in the flight and asked if they had expirence and issues with their weapons systems. (or work center took great pride in being able to keep our weapons system alway working. 95% up rate.) The other pilots including the CO stated that they had not. They were in the debrief at that time.
The CO asked me to come up and speak with him real quick.
I figured it would be another chew out for messing something up, but the I could hear laughter in the back ground. So went up to see the CO, he hands me fuming pilots flight video and tells me to put it in the VCR. I do hit play and about 3 minutes into the engagment. I see the pilot looking frantically around the cockpit, and the calling out no joy, and asking to break the engagment off because he cannot get his weapons system to work.
I have to give the pilot credit, If i had not seen the video and realized what had happened.. We would have been troubleshooting the weapons system all night.
The pilot almost got it right. He had selected his air to air weapons, and even got to the point of selecting the AIM-9.. the correct weapon. His frantic search was for the Switch that cuts the coolent to the head so that it can seek freely.
Needless to say after spliting my side laughing. I headed back down to the work center handed the work request and tape to the pilot. with it signed off that seeker head on aim-9 cannot work if you don't uncage and let it seek freely.(The infamous switch will not work in OFF position.)
The pilot always made sure after that to let us know what steps he took if he reported a problem from there on out.
I still love to hear stuff like that... It is human nature at its best. :)