ArtKramr wrote:

You are on a mission. What is the most frightening thing you can hear over the
intercom? Any opinions?

Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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1. "Flight Engineer to the flight station" (in a P-3, when the FE has
gone aft to whiz, have a cuppa or whatever, and the pilots have been
left in the cockhouse without adult supervision..)

2. "Nav, flight, give us a heading back to homeplate"
"Uh, 341?" (clearly stated as a question).
"Nav, flight, I want you to TELL me, not ASK me..."
(also a P-3. Nav was a recently qual'd nugget. Flight was the squadron
Ops O, and not happy with this response. If you thought the shortest
measureable time was a nanosecond, then you didn't see how quickly his
headsets came off and he ended up in the Nav's grill...)

3. Without the intercom: The fire warning horn for any motor....for the
third time...after both its own HRD fire bottle and the one on the
adjacent engine has already been expended. (resulted in a short P-3
detour to Wake Island on a transpac to figure out WTF)

4. "Crew, flight. We've just heard from (insert appropriated command
element here): we're going to PLE (also a P-3 thing, PLE meaning
"prudent limit of endurance". You won't be back in time for the movie, a
hot meal, or anything else...)