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It'll take me a little bit to get all the funny stories that my teacher has told us together, so to start things off I thought I'd regale you with the tale of the third test in my private pilot class.
I think overall though if I, and anyone else who wants to, want to post amusing stuff for TGM and everyone else to read/listen to, might as well make a central thread for it.
This thread is for the funnies only! Or else I'll sic my Tribble on you!
And with that, onward!
Now as I said earlier in another thread, we need a test booklet for most of our tests. There is an FAA book of questions that we are tested out of, for this chapter dealing with flight instruments there were about 58 questions, 20 of which the teacher would choose to be on the test. Now you needed the diagram booklet for the first test, didn't need it for the second, and anyone who had done any studying at all would have known that they needed it for this test, because a number of the questions said, "Refer to Figure N" The teacher has also stated that he reserves the right to alter questions subtly sometimes to make sure you are not just memorizing answers and actually know your stuff. So even if you know your stuff, it's best to bring this diagram booklet in on test days, which the teacher has repeatedly stated many many times to do.
So test day comes, and about, I'd say 5-6 people out of a class of oh, 40+ish I think, come up to the teacher and say that they need to borrow his booklet for the test. C'mon guys, seriously now. You want to be captain of some airline? You want to be an ATC? Right now you are showing that you cannot follow simple instructions, so why the hell would the FAA entrust you with a few thousand lives each day? We need to get a recommendation from these teachers, well, one teacher in particular I believe, in order to take the screening test before we can even be considered for employment or training with the FAA. If you keep this up do you really think the teachers will give that recommendation?
Oh, and then, at the end of the test a good, say half to two thirds of the class just walk out, they're done. Some of us however have furrowed brows as we're reviewing our results. This is a multiple choice test on a computer in the classroom, so we get instant results. Something seems amiss with questions 17, 18, and 20, and those of us still left in the classroom go and talk to the teacher about this. We're sure we got the right answer, but it says we got it wrong, what's up? Turns out that something got messed up and we did in fact get 17, 18, and 20 correct, so he'll have it fixed by Monday.
Now this means that a good half to two thirds of the class either didn't know, or didn't care about this. Furthermore, the incorrect answers for two of the questions that the computer said were the "correct" answers were just flat out damn wrong. They were so wrong that you'd have to be almost clueless on the subject to have picked them. Yet I am under the impression that many of the class picked those answers. I feel kinda bad for the one guy sitting next to me who left early and was so happy with his 100%, which come Monday he'll find out is really a B.
Oh, almost forgot. Since this class is two classes combined in one, there aren't enough computers in one classroom for all the students to take the test on, so we split up into two rooms. It was kinda funny, there's these two girls who ALWAYS go everywhere together, practically joined at the hip. And while they seem like serious students, are always laughing and having a good time with each other, and just being totally girly girls. It's really funny and cute to watch. Anyway, one of the girls comes in, and she askes our teacher, George, if he has a moment. George has about 4-5 students already bombarding him with questions, so he tells her that it'll just be a few moments. I'm packing up my bag, and I call over to her, "Questions 17, 18 and 20?" and she just looks at me with an almost stunned look and says, "Yeah, how did you know?" That look was totally priceless :D
Ok ok, so maybe overall not terribly funny but I found it amusing
And now I leave you with a funny actual exchange between the tower and an aircraft, I can't exactly remember the tower's line sadly though :/
Situation: There is a huge line of planes waiting to take off from an airport, delays are long.
Unidentified aircraft: I'm F'ing bored!
Tower ground control: To the last aircraft on the radio, identify yourself!
Unidentified aircraft: I said I'm F'ing bored, not F'ing stupid!
I think overall though if I, and anyone else who wants to, want to post amusing stuff for TGM and everyone else to read/listen to, might as well make a central thread for it.
This thread is for the funnies only! Or else I'll sic my Tribble on you!
And with that, onward!
Now as I said earlier in another thread, we need a test booklet for most of our tests. There is an FAA book of questions that we are tested out of, for this chapter dealing with flight instruments there were about 58 questions, 20 of which the teacher would choose to be on the test. Now you needed the diagram booklet for the first test, didn't need it for the second, and anyone who had done any studying at all would have known that they needed it for this test, because a number of the questions said, "Refer to Figure N" The teacher has also stated that he reserves the right to alter questions subtly sometimes to make sure you are not just memorizing answers and actually know your stuff. So even if you know your stuff, it's best to bring this diagram booklet in on test days, which the teacher has repeatedly stated many many times to do.
So test day comes, and about, I'd say 5-6 people out of a class of oh, 40+ish I think, come up to the teacher and say that they need to borrow his booklet for the test. C'mon guys, seriously now. You want to be captain of some airline? You want to be an ATC? Right now you are showing that you cannot follow simple instructions, so why the hell would the FAA entrust you with a few thousand lives each day? We need to get a recommendation from these teachers, well, one teacher in particular I believe, in order to take the screening test before we can even be considered for employment or training with the FAA. If you keep this up do you really think the teachers will give that recommendation?
Oh, and then, at the end of the test a good, say half to two thirds of the class just walk out, they're done. Some of us however have furrowed brows as we're reviewing our results. This is a multiple choice test on a computer in the classroom, so we get instant results. Something seems amiss with questions 17, 18, and 20, and those of us still left in the classroom go and talk to the teacher about this. We're sure we got the right answer, but it says we got it wrong, what's up? Turns out that something got messed up and we did in fact get 17, 18, and 20 correct, so he'll have it fixed by Monday.
Now this means that a good half to two thirds of the class either didn't know, or didn't care about this. Furthermore, the incorrect answers for two of the questions that the computer said were the "correct" answers were just flat out damn wrong. They were so wrong that you'd have to be almost clueless on the subject to have picked them. Yet I am under the impression that many of the class picked those answers. I feel kinda bad for the one guy sitting next to me who left early and was so happy with his 100%, which come Monday he'll find out is really a B.
Oh, almost forgot. Since this class is two classes combined in one, there aren't enough computers in one classroom for all the students to take the test on, so we split up into two rooms. It was kinda funny, there's these two girls who ALWAYS go everywhere together, practically joined at the hip. And while they seem like serious students, are always laughing and having a good time with each other, and just being totally girly girls. It's really funny and cute to watch. Anyway, one of the girls comes in, and she askes our teacher, George, if he has a moment. George has about 4-5 students already bombarding him with questions, so he tells her that it'll just be a few moments. I'm packing up my bag, and I call over to her, "Questions 17, 18 and 20?" and she just looks at me with an almost stunned look and says, "Yeah, how did you know?" That look was totally priceless :D
Ok ok, so maybe overall not terribly funny but I found it amusing
And now I leave you with a funny actual exchange between the tower and an aircraft, I can't exactly remember the tower's line sadly though :/
Situation: There is a huge line of planes waiting to take off from an airport, delays are long.
Unidentified aircraft: I'm F'ing bored!
Tower ground control: To the last aircraft on the radio, identify yourself!
Unidentified aircraft: I said I'm F'ing bored, not F'ing stupid!
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