Share Your Real Pilot Stories

[Kamak86]

Every Pilot has stories from there flight training. I was taught that sharing pilot stoires "hanger talk" not only provides entertainment but also makes you a better pilot by listening to what others have gone though and survivied and what they did so you dont get into that situation....Ive had a few close calls with a few airplanes, how to bust airspace with your flight instructor and then watching him get reamed over the radio for it(then him explaining and apologizing to me and ATC), what not to do while iniating a go around and a few more.

-My first solo flight i was suppose to do 3 take offs and landings to a full stop, well i got so excited and so nervious flying the first time by myself I did 1 take off and 3 touch and gos.

-Had a Cessna 404 racing down the taxi way and on to the runway without stopping or making a call or looking down final for that matter while i was was 1/8 from threshold.

-Had a bad habit of raising the flaps before adding power on a "go around" (that was hammered out right quick)

- Last and the most fun of all was, I was entering the traffic pattern at 90Kts on the down wind while slowing down, I make the call "XXXX airport, NXXXX on downwind for Runway 20, XXXXX airport" Almost to Base leg i hear "XXXXX Airport, NXXXXX is downwind runway 20, N(myplane) we are a little bit faster then you we will be passing you on your left side, we have you insight, XXXX airport" I look over to my far left and its the P-51C just starting to lower the landing gear and makes a right turn showing the distintive profile of a mustang. My flight insructor took a snap shot while in the air as it passed us and when i find it i will post it. The airport was having a Wings of Freedom weekend and they had a few bombers and a P-51C and a corsair. My sig is the actual plane that passed us.