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I hate flying! However, I spent a good part of 6 months shuttling back and forth to a remote site in Alaska. Heated it. Looking back on it, it wasn't that bad. The worst days were when the wind sock had an erection. Lol
 
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malinoisvol said:
I hate flying! However, I spent a good part of 6 months shuttling back and forth to a remote site in Alaska. Heated it. Looking back on it, it wasn't that bad. The worst days were when the wind sock had an erection. Lol
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LOL, seen way too many them erections!! 3:00am 40 feet in the air in a bucket truck de-icing a DC10 horizontal & vertical stabilizers with the no. 2 engine running. 15 degrees with 25 mph winds. Spray nozzle was powered by its own independent 6 cyl Ford engine. That high in the air with a heavy wind, you best be ready when you open the nozzle!! You goin for a ride & it could knock you down inside the bucket (harness on). When we’d see de-ice fluid spraying straight up in the air & no one standing in bucket, we knew what happened:eek:. Good times!!
 
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Orange Sunset said:
LOL, seen way too many them erections!! 3:00am 40 feet in the air in a bucket truck de-icing a DC10 horizontal & vertical stabilizers with the no. 2 engine running. 15 degrees with 25 mph winds. Spray nozzle was powered by its own independent 6 cyl Ford engine. That high in the air with a heavy wind, you best be ready when you open the nozzle!! You goin for a ride & it could knock you down inside the bucket (harness on). When we’d see de-ice fluid spraying straight up in the air & no one standing in bucket, we knew what happened:eek:. Good times!!
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I used to work on them deicers in my previous life. I'll take my chances in the choppers. Lol
 
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VolNExile said:
I have done this. Running a tank dry on takeoff. All I can say is that I {{{{{{{ love }}}}}}} high-winged aircraft (a 1946 Cessna 140 in this case.)
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WOW!! Losing you're only engine on take off don't usually end well. Can see running outta fuel on a landing, but a take off?? Even with a faulty gauge, that's gotta be operator error? No?

Make it back to the airport? Where'd you set it down? You get hurt?
 
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Orange Sunset said:
WOW!! Losing you're only engine on take off don't usually end well. Can see running outta fuel on a landing, but a take off?? Even with a faulty gauge, that's gotta be operator error? No?
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Oh yeah, that was TOTALLY operator error!

Cessna 140’s had separate wing tanks that didn’t automatically switch over when one ran dry. So if you didn’t have the wit to understand what was happening, you could easily prat it in with a half fuel load available but unused.

I was a student pilot in my fiancé’s plane, and somehow I hadn't fully incorporated a scan of the fuel gauges into my preflight. When the engine quit about 50 feet AGL, I immediately tapped the tach dial. (Because that’s what you do, right?? Make that damn needle get back up there!!) We flew off an island airstrip, and I was over water by then. I had my seat belt snugged up, glasses off, and the door open, setting up for my best possible nose-up tail-dragger stall landing while preparing for a water landing and immediate flip upside down (preparatory to drowning), when I had this sudden image of once seeing my fiancé’s partner’s hairy arm turning a red handle on the panel. I did that, having no idea at the moment what that red handle was, and the engine roared back into life. It was the fuel tank selector handle. That 140 obviously wanted to live as much as I did. Maybe I’d been taught that, but I sure don’t remember it. All I know is that I will forever have a deep and abiding love for gravity-fed fuel tanks and high-winged aircraft in general.

The worst part is that it occurred on the meeting night of our flying club, and everyone heard it. They had the boat out by the time I got it together. How humiliating to have 60 or so witnesses! And I was reminded about it for years afterwards.

Motto: don’t take flying lessons from someone you’re romantically involved with. You may or may not retain stuff you’re taught, and you may or may not have been taught it in the first place.
 
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Orange Sunset said:
WOW!! Losing you're only engine on take off don't usually end well. Can see running outta fuel on a landing, but a take off?? Even with a faulty gauge, that's gotta be operator error? No?

Make it back to the airport? Where'd you set it down? You get hurt?
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Since the engine started up again a few yards above the water (Lake Loudon, in fact), I just continued flying the pattern, landed back on the grass strip, and kissed the ground when I tied the plane back down. I was done flying for the day.
 
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VolNExile said:
Oh yeah, that was TOTALLY operator error!

Cessna 140’s had separate wing tanks that didn’t automatically switch over when one ran dry. So if you didn’t have the wit to understand what was happening, you could easily prat it in with a half fuel load available but unused.

I was a student pilot in my fiancé’s plane, and somehow I hadn't fully incorporated a scan of the fuel gauges into my preflight. When the engine quit about 50 feet AGL, I immediately tapped the tach dial. (Because that’s what you do, right?? Make that damn needle get back up there!!) We flew off an island airstrip, and I was over water by then. I had my seat belt snugged up, glasses off, and the door open, setting up for my best possible nose-up tail-dragger stall landing while preparing for a water landing and immediate flip upside down (preparatory to drowning), when I had this sudden image of once seeing my fiancé’s partner’s hairy arm turning a red handle on the panel. I did that, having no idea at the moment what that red handle was, and the engine roared back into life. It was the fuel tank selector handle. That 140 obviously wanted to live as much as I did. Maybe I’d been taught that, but I sure don’t remember it. All I know is that I will forever have a deep and abiding love for gravity-fed fuel tanks and high-winged aircraft in general.

The worst part is that it occurred on the meeting night of our flying club, and everyone heard it. They had the boat out by the time I got it together. How humiliating to have 60 or so witnesses! And I was reminded about it for years afterwards.

Motto: don’t take flying lessons from someone you’re romantically involved with. You may or may not retain stuff you’re taught, and you may or may not have been taught it in the first place.
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What a story!! Had there not been any fuel in the swap over tank, you might not have gotten to tell this. You had enough sense to stay calm & do the right things right in a short amount of time.

Best LOL’s: “I hadn't fully incorporated a scan of the fuel gauges into my preflight”
“engine quit about 50 feet AGL, I immediately tapped the tach dial. (Because that’s what you do, right?? Make that damn needle get back up there!!)”
 
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