Stuck mike

[blacknwhiteice]

A while back I was inbound with a student and had reported our intentions on frequency, join downwind etc, then a plane called in on final just landing and never stopped transmitting. While everyone was listening to what the two pilots did over the weekend (mike was stuck for about 13 minutes) we joined downwind, base, final, started our backtrack just as they got unstuck and fss got on the radio to tell us Westjet was 1 mile final right behind us. We taxied off with no incident (except some sweaty palms and quick taxi speeds!).

Just wondered if anyone else has had some stories of incidents/close calls with stuck mikes. Guess I should have had a better lookout, the 737 about the biggest thing to miss, my lesson learned!!

[phillyfan]

Heard a couple having relations on 126.7. Not sure which one was holding the button down but her mother would not have been proud of the language she was using.

[oldtimer]

Happened to a collegue of mine. Maintenace put a new hand mic in and stuffed it in the side pouch. Sure made a mes of things for a few minutes. Someone else had a stuck mic on ground control a couple of times over a 4 or 5 day period. Always the same airplane and always in the morning. It can be dangerous. Some of our newer Comm radios have a transmit signal on the selector that shows you are transmitting.

[Tim]

An option that is always available at towers is to switch to ground/back to centre, as well as 121.5. Obviously this won't help at an ATF.

[Smitty]

Inevitably some moron starts transmitting "hellooooo...your mike is stuck".

Helloooo....they can't hear you!

[RichAir]

I was flying with a bendix king, I had 2 push to talk, one of them was U/S and attached to the column. Sometime, my knee was pushing it and it was stuck. It stuck one day and I didn't notice it, after a while, the radio screen started flashing, that's an other device I didn't know about. On some transponder, if you select 7700, 7500 or 7600, the screen flashes too (try it on std by mode).

[Hedley]

The AM VHF comm radio is the most expendable piece
of equipment in the aircraft.

LOOK OUTSIDE.

An american friend of mine came up for a visit recently,
he remarked that Canadians seem to love to talk
endlessly on the radio.

LOOK OUTSIDE.

When you most need a radio - many aircraft - is
when it is most likely to fail. What a crappy design.
If you designed an AM VHF comm radio today, I'll
bet you couldn't get TSO approval for it. Sorta like
the ADF. Imagine if the ADF didn't exist, and someone
designed one, and suggested that you use it for
IFR use. You'd be laughed out of the building.

[niss]

The AM VHF comm radio is the most expendable piece
of equipment in the aircraft.

LOOK OUTSIDE.

An american friend of mine came up for a visit recently,
he remarked that Canadians seem to love to talk
endlessly on the radio.

LOOK OUTSIDE.

When you most need a radio - many aircraft - is
when it is most likely to fail. What a crappy design.
If you designed an AM VHF comm radio today, I'll
bet you couldn't get TSO approval for it. Sorta like
the ADF. Imagine if the ADF didn't exist, and someone
designed one, and suggested that you use it for
IFR use. You'd be laughed out of the building.

I am confused. I thought AM was HF.

[iflyforpie]

No. Aviation VHF band radio is AM.

But hey, it's the grandfathered items that keep general aviation going (50 year old airframe designs behind 50 year old engines). We should have a poll to see how many people in general aviation are flying planes made within the last decade.

[niss]

Duh Frequency vs. Modulation. My bad!

I am super tired today.

[Old Dog Flying]

Back in the days when YPK was really busy, one sunny Sunday I cleared a C-140 for take-off and he acknowledged...all the way to Chilliwack! The female passenger started the moan 'n grone routine at about 100' AGL and never stopped. Whatever she was doing or having done to her was enough to make a logger blush. And I had a bunch of aircraft on each of the parallels but fortunately most of them had enough sense to switch to the second frequency.

And the prize of all was the 401 Sqn Harvard with 2 airline types driving, doing mock straffing runs on a TCA North Star over the Klienberg Beacon...the new com-techie had reversed the transmit/intercom switch....The verbiage was incredible...both of the Harvard druvers were working for TCA at the time.

[Strega]

The AM VHF comm radio is the most expendable piece
of equipment in the aircraft.

LOOK OUTSIDE.

An american friend of mine came up for a visit recently,
he remarked that Canadians seem to love to talk
endlessly on the radio.

LOOK OUTSIDE.

When you most need a radio - many aircraft - is
when it is most likely to fail. What a crappy design.
If you designed an AM VHF comm radio today, I'll
bet you couldn't get TSO approval for it. Sorta like
the ADF. Imagine if the ADF didn't exist, and someone
designed one, and suggested that you use it for
IFR use. You'd be laughed out of the building.

soo true!

If people ever ask you " whats the matter with your radio"?,, the standard reply is "whats the matter with your eyes"?