Retard Retard....

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:02 am

I sure enjoyed the AC bus in yyc the other day on landing. Someone keyed the mic so we could all hear the autopilot calling out Retard! Retard!

Way too funny. Only the french could come up with that...if it was Canadian designed it would have to call out "persons with disabilities".

rsandor · Post by **rsandor** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:19 am

Here's a youtube link of an A320 on final for those who've never heard it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImrFj-oNTW8

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retard!
retard!
retard!

trey kule · Post by **trey kule** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:20 am

Co Joe

If someone in the cockpit was keying the Mike so you could hear it, retard might have been in English.

I would really like to know the flight no. you were on that had this happen. PM me if you like.

carholme · Post by **carholme** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:59 am

Presumably, after the altitude callouts, "Retard" means exactly that, retard the power levers.

Regards

carholme

N2 · Post by N2 » Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:11 am

It was trying to point out to the pilots that they were at the wrong airport!

Rockie · Post by **Rockie** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:42 am

In an automatic landing, the FADEC's command the thrust to idle at 40 feet. Since the thrust levers don't actually move the retard callout is a prompt that occurs at 10 feet for the pilot to also bring the thrust levers to idle. In a manual landing the callout is a reminder only and occurs at 20 feet.

Before you laugh, recall that it was only a few weeks ago that a 320 went off the end of the runway in Brazil because the pilot left one thrust lever in the climb detent.

invertedattitude · Post by **invertedattitude** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 10:34 am

You bust your balls for 15 years in aviation, finally land yourself a real jet job, and you get called a retard.... well that's a pilots life in Canada I guess.

wallypilot · Post by **wallypilot** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:22 am

trey kule wrote:Co Joe

If someone in the cockpit was keying the Mike so you could hear it, retard might have been in English.

I would really like to know the flight no. you were on that had this happen. PM me if you like.

I think he is referring to the fact that the aircraft is Airbus design (french/german) as opposed to Bombardier (Canadian) or Boeing (American) designed.

C-FABH · Post by **C-FABH** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:24 pm

wallypilot wrote:
trey kule wrote:Co Joe

If someone in the cockpit was keying the Mike so you could hear it, retard might have been in English.

I would really like to know the flight no. you were on that had this happen. PM me if you like.
I think he is referring to the fact that the aircraft is Airbus design (french/german) as opposed to Bombardier (Canadian) or Boeing (American) designed.

I think Trey Kule is referring to the fact that Co-Joe stated "Someone keyed the mic so we could all hear the autopilot calling out Retard! Retard!"

That indeed sounds more than a little out of the ordinary to me.

Rubberbiscuit · Post by **Rubberbiscuit** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:16 pm

The F100 is similar, maybe funnier. It says: "Flare, retard".

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:54 pm

I thought it just said that cuz I was sittin there..

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:16 am

I don't want to get someone in trouble so I won't say exactly when, but we guessed that someone purposefully keyed the mic next to the speaker so we could clearly hear the call out on the tower freq. I don't even know what model bus it was, you can tell by the number of emergency exits or something?

Personally I thought it was funny as hell.

But you never know, it could have been a stuck mic.

. ._ · Post by **. ._** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:28 am

N2 wrote:It was trying to point out to the pilots that they were at the wrong airport!

lol

skycoupe · Post by **skycoupe** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 8:37 am

You Boeing drivers out there can correct me if I'm wrong

But I recall many moons ago sitting in the jumpseat of a 767, and Captain turning around a saying "Watch this .. we do a perfect approach, and the airplane calls us names". I didn't know what he was talking about until the plane called retard.

So do Boeings have this as well?

Rockie · Post by **Rockie** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:27 am

skycoupe wrote:You Boeing drivers out there can correct me if I'm wrong

But I recall many moons ago sitting in the jumpseat of a 767, and Captain turning around a saying "Watch this .. we do a perfect approach, and the airplane calls us names". I didn't know what he was talking about until the plane called retard.

So do Boeings have this as well?

No, it's only an Airbus thing.

sidestick stirrer · Post by **sidestick stirrer** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:44 am

Although I have not personally done this, I have ridden through a landing where my colleague caused the exact same thing to happen.
Wrassling with the sidestick during the latter stages of the approach and landing due to gusting crosswinds coming over the terminal building, he accidentally curled his finger around the transmit trigger on the sidestick and squeezed it.
Not only did the Tower hear the "Retard" reminder, they also heard a MoFo expletive, the Pilot Flying's reaction to their touchdown.
Only when he released the transmit trigger did we hear the Tower ask if that was some kind of new Airbus call, with laughter in the background.