Every Flight Should Teach a Lesson. Right?
Well, here are a few lessons learned (and re-learned) today:
- Always brief the departure procedure given by clearance delivery.
- When the lineman chocks the front wheel, remove both chocks - especially if you have wheel pants.
- Don't trust the lineman's opinion of "2/3rds full".
- Controllers don't like it when a plane does an unapproved 180 on the taxiway.
- Controllers really don't like it when the same plane turns onto a runway (even if it's inactive) when the instruction was to cross the runway.
- An unopened can of Diet Coke will fail catastrophically when left in direct summer sunlight in a car parked at the airport.
- Fatique can manifest itself in interesting ways.
Some of these lessons (re)learned were mine, but I'm not telling you which ones. Just take the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of others. :)