Brake on, plane starts taxiing on its own

Aircraft: Citation X

I was just at EDDF on expert and I pushed back. When I clicked “stop pushback”, the plane stopped like it should. I didn’t like the position I was in so I clicked pushback again and used the rudder to better align myself. Then when I was done with that I clicked stop pushback again, it stopped but 2 seconds later I started to roll forward which gave me a mild heart attack. I quickly hit end flight. I did not have either engines on at any point.

This may sound stupid but what was the winds like? I noticed this happens to me when the brakes aren’t applied and the winds are even mild I start rolling

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According to windy.com, winds are 6 kts at 100 degrees.

The smaller planes will roll if the brakes aren’t on sometimes

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When you hit “stop pushback” doesn’t it put the brakes on?

Yes it does but something must have happened. I would only worry if it happens many times other than that end the flight and restart the app and it will probably never occur again.

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It is 10004KT right now, I pushed back at 15:38Z.

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I’m going to fly on training and casual a couple times then.

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I’ve had this happen to me before. I thought it was just a glitch, and it probably is.

Yeah, I fly the C750 a lot. It did not look like a normal roll. It looked more like when you see someone else lose connection. Kind of like I was floating. It was hard to tell though because of the view I had.

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Perhaps the winds went crazy and possibly lifted your aircraft up?

I wouldn’t consider 4knts crazy.

Did the aircraft lift up? Sometimes the winds can jump up to 100knots then calm back down again. It’s a split second thing.

I was in normal view at this angle. It’s hard to tell but it may have. I spawned in to take this picture, no spontanous uncontrolled taxing this time after pushing back.

Why Did you end the flight just switch over and put the brakes on yourself 🤨🤨

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I was starting my flight, hence the pushback. 🤨 And I usually use the brake button instead of stop pushback. This was an exception.

It might have been the wind what pushed ya if it was strong wind