"There I was... 7 thousand feet, out of fuel, out of options, no place to land, and I had to take a leak..."

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December 25, 2018, 10:05 AM

Rey HRH

"There I was... 7 thousand feet, out of fuel, out of options, no place to land, and I had to take a leak..."

What was the driver of the car waiting for? Did he wanted to shake hands with the pilot afterwards?

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December 25, 2018, 10:38 AM

SevenPlusOne

quote:
Originally posted by sigmoid:
quote:
Originally posted by Hamden106:
Isn't that what they had pilot tubes for

those are pitot tubes...

Thanks, some of us had to learn this the hard way.

December 25, 2018, 12:10 PM

mojojojo

You haven’t lived until you’ve tried to take a leak while strapped into an ejection seat.

December 25, 2018, 12:25 PM

MikeinNC

quote:
Originally posted by mojojojo:
You haven’t lived until you’ve tried to take a leak while strapped into an ejection seat.

Try taking a leak while in thirty foot seas in the middle of a hurricane...lol Good Times!!

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December 25, 2018, 06:39 PM

dsiets

As a child, I pissed my pants. Nothing happens. NO fireball or explosive detonations.
You end up wet.
Land on an interstate, who knows what can happen.

December 25, 2018, 07:06 PM

sigmonkey

This was a couple of days ago.
He had engine failure shortly after departing Talladega Airport.

He certainly did not land because he had to take a leak.

But it is common to need to urinate from a highly stressful incident as a result of the part of the brain that "inhibits" the "pee whenever you have something in the bladder".

it's "priority", the brain kicks into "preservation mode", and all the cool accessories and features take a back seat, and the "don't pee right now" is one of those.

So, yeah, he thought " I feel the need for peed!"

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December 25, 2018, 07:13 PM

dsiets

^^^
That makes more sense. And he lived to pee about it.
It also explains his casualness.