Seeing as the Simpsons was created thirty years ago today, and D’oh is now an official word in the dictionary, let’s make this a thing!
There have been man D’oh moments in aviation over the years, and you might have had some.
So here is my question, what’s your aviation D’oh moment?
Successfully booking a flight on the wrong date…
Showing up to the airport 10 hours early…
So to preface this story, I was taking this flight after a red-eye flight… after a school day. At the time I’d been awake for over 24 hours because I wasn’t sleeping on the plane.
So I was on a BA A321 to Paris. As we touched town, a plane departing on a parallel runway was lifting off. As I exit the plane I asked the captain (who was the pilot flying) “did you see that takeoff was perfectly timed?!”
He goes “well… I was kinda focused on landing the plane.”
DOH
I was exhausted and out of it but this still haunts me to this day.
I misclicked and booked a flight a week early. I showed up at the airport and tried to check in a week later, and then… well, you get it.
d’oh
I’m not even going to ask why…
Is that really such a bad thing though?
Yeah I’d plane spot the entire time
It was an accident + delay. For some reason we thought the flight left at 8 am instead of 8 pm 🤦♂️.
@JacksonAviation and @Airwolf - I didn’t have an sort of camera at the time and my phone makes quite bad pics. If I did some digging through my photos, I’ll probably fine some “plane spotting” ones from that time.
Loooool. Roasted by the British
Me in a 737-700 SW cockpit when I was 8 and the captain asking me, “guess what this button does?” as he points to the landing light switches. Me being the clueless 8 year old I was says the pilot radio switch 😂
Anyways d’oh
Attempting to navigate Frankfurt am Main Airport. Got lost about three times in one layover of about 6 hours. Man, I really hate EDDF.
Been there, almost trapped in Ft. Laudable, but given that it was 70F, and I was within 50 ft of a beach I was not that upset…
Taking off and realizing I rented the $145/hr plane instead of $105…
Flying out of Brisbane airport…
For some backstory (really quickly)…
I was flying out of the domestic terminal, which is dark, dingy and quite dirty for an airport. I went to use the restroom, and there was an overflowing urinal.
I would recommend flying in/out of the Gold Coast instead.
I’m just kidding, just a bit of banter for those who live in Brisbane… But please, fix the urinal.
-Adam
Practicing circuits at Redcliffe (YRED) with the C172.
Forgot to flare for one landing, needless to say that was a hard landing, thank lord the landing gear remained intact.
ah, the memories.
once played an inappropriate remix of Santa tell me on full volume in the McDonalds line thinking I had my headphones fully plugged in. Boy did everyone’s expression change when it turned inappropriate
To those curious, Santa Tell Me x My Neck My Back
Not using my Callsign when reporting the airport in sight. Luckily I knew the approach controller and he figured out who was calling
Let’s see here; first off, if you’ve ever met a real, Canadian blooded Cyr (pronounced see-er) then you’ll know just how we are with arguing about EVERYTHING. We take a perfectly peaceful conversation and find something to argue or correct about it. So about a year ago I was flying back out to Connecticut to see my grandfather (who is also a Cyr) on Frontier Airlines from Denver, Colorado to Providence, Rhode Island. It was a redeye flight and I was hyped up on caffeine and advil (I had had the worst migraine ever before I left for DIA). We boarded our flight and I was seated at the bulkhead in seat 1C. I had my carry on backpack with my laptop, phone charger and other necessities in this digital age. Since I was seated at the bulkhead I had to store my bag in the overhead bin for takeoff, well half conscious me forgot that. When the flight attendant came to ask me to put my bag up I said “well it’s a personal item, did the FAA change the rules on keeping bags under the seat in front of you?” or some snarky remark similar to that. So I went to shove my bag under the seat in front of me but then realized, I was in the in front of everybody and there wasn’t any seat in front of me. I did end up apologizing to the FA. (I’m not that much of a jerk.)
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