"Somebody check your mike on the radio, please..."

If I hear this ONE more time on Unicom, I'm going to scream!

Is it *really* possible that one can be a certificated pilot, and *NOT*
know that it's impossible to receive AND transmit at the same time?

Is it *really* possible that a certicated pilot would transmit a
statement like this into the ether, expecting the guy with the stuck
mike to actually be able to HEAR what he's saying?

Sadly, the answer is "yes". We hear it almost every time there's a
stuck-mike situation.

Truly scary...

I'll take a hundred guys saying "Any other traffic, please advise..."
over THIS kind of stupidity.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Is it *really* possible that a certicated pilot would transmit a
statement like this into the ether, expecting the guy with the stuck
mike to actually be able to HEAR what he's saying?

There are actually a few situations in which the aircraft with a stuck
mike might hear the transmissions. Granted they are not common, but
they are neither impossible nor contrived.

Jose
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He who laughs, lasts.
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"Jose" wrote in message
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Is it *really* possible that a certicated pilot would transmit a
statement like this into the ether, expecting the guy with the stuck
mike to actually be able to HEAR what he's saying?

There are actually a few situations in which the aircraft with a stuck
mike might hear the transmissions. Granted they are not common, but
they are neither impossible nor contrived.

And on a Unicom frequency those would be what?

Jose
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He who laughs, lasts.
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On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:32:57 GMT, Dave Stadt wrote:

There are actually a few situations in which the aircraft with a stuck
mike might hear the transmissions. Granted they are not common, but
they are neither impossible nor contrived.

And on a Unicom frequency those would be what?

Lets expand this a tad further..... any frequency.

The absolute time I could ever think that someone heard that they had a
stuck mike would be if they were listening in on a handheld radio,
otherwise, I cannot think of any situations.

Allen

hmmm... what I had in mind was a split (pilot/copilot) stack, but upon
further thought the transmitter would overwhelm the receiver, even
though the receiver is not switched off.

As Rosanne RosannaDanna would say, "never mind".

Jose
(Damn... that's the =second= time I was wrong!)
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"Jose" wrote in message
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hmmm... what I had in mind was a split (pilot/copilot) stack, but upon
further thought the transmitter would overwhelm the receiver, even though
the receiver is not switched off.

As Rosanne RosannaDanna would say, "never mind".

Jose
(Damn... that's the =second= time I was wrong!)
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How about in a dual com situation, tx on com1 and rec on com2?

Harvey

And if the stack has an audio panel worthy of the name, the opposite
transceiver's audio is cut off during transmit to prevent an unholy squeal
coming down the audio line of the receiver that is still operating.

Jim


"Jose" wrote in message
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hmmm... what I had in mind was a split (pilot/copilot) stack, but upon
further thought the transmitter would overwhelm the receiver, even though
the receiver is not switched off.
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A Lieberman wrote:
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:32:57 GMT, Dave Stadt wrote:

There are actually a few situations in which the aircraft with a
stuck mike might hear the transmissions. Granted they are not
common, but they are neither impossible nor contrived.

And on a Unicom frequency those would be what?

Lets expand this a tad further..... any frequency.

The absolute time I could ever think that someone heard that they had
a stuck mike would be if they were listening in on a handheld radio,
otherwise, I cannot think of any situations.

Allen

Depends on the location of the hand mike. I've seen situations where the
pilots knee pushed the transmit button intermittently so the stuck mike
situation was not constant. In this case he might be able to hear the
"stuck mike warning" transmission. It's happened to me.

--

Darrell R. Schmidt
B-58 Hustler History: http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/
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Dave Stadt wrote:
"Jose" wrote in message
...

Is it *really* possible that a certicated pilot would transmit a
statement like this into the ether, expecting the guy with the stuck
mike to actually be able to HEAR what he's saying?

There are actually a few situations in which the aircraft with a stuck
mike might hear the transmissions. Granted they are not common, but
they are neither impossible nor contrived.

And on a Unicom frequency those would be what?

Any frequency, if a pilot has two radios and both are tuned to the same freqency.

George Patterson
If a tank is out of ammunition, what you have is a sixty ton portable
radio.

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Dave Stadt wrote:
"Jose" wrote in message
...

Is it *really* possible that a certicated pilot would transmit a
statement like this into the ether, expecting the guy with the stuck
mike to actually be able to HEAR what he's saying?

There are actually a few situations in which the aircraft with a stuck
mike might hear the transmissions. Granted they are not common, but
they are neither impossible nor contrived.

And on a Unicom frequency those would be what?

Any frequency, if a pilot has two radios and both are tuned to the same
freqency.

Not.

George Patterson
If a tank is out of ammunition, what you have is a sixty ton
portable
radio.