"Fly Baby, you violated Class B Airspace"

Just to reiterate what was said above - never ever, answer some
anonymous voice on the radio.. Continue making your position reports
and go about your business...

However there are limits... I take my plane to another field for
mechanic work... We had just finished the annual on my Super Viking,
pushed the plane out on the ramp and did the run up with extensive mag
checks, etc. (had just put brand new mags on it), and brought the oil
(fresh) temperature intot he green... Pushed it back inside (cuz it
was 20 degrees ) and put the cowlings back on... The mechanics shop
is right off the end of the runway... 20 minutes later pushed it back
out, fired up, taxied, rolled onto the runway and took off...

As the gear was coming up this 'anonymous voice' comes on stating that
I just violated reg # so-and-so because I did not do a run up and mag
check and prop cycle and I had not stopped at the hold short line and
yadda yadda...
Now, I had been ignoring this a-hole and his anonymous rantings for
the previous three or four years and it was just getting worse...
Because it was a dark, cold, December afternoon there were only 3 cars
on the entire field, in front of the terminal, so I knew where the
blowhard had to be... For whatever reason, he had finally flipped my
switch...
So I announced that the Viking was making a 180 and downwind emergency
landing! And I did... As I entered the terminal there were two guys
sitting there...
"Where is the a**hole?"
They laughed and pointed towards the road where I could see tail
lights disappearing in the rapidly gathering darkness... "He just
remembered his wife wanted him to get some bread for supper."
I left them with some specific instructions for the future for them to
relay to Mr. Radio... He apparently got the message because it has
been over ten years and while I see him on the field once in a while,
the radio has been silent...

denny

Denny writes:

As the gear was coming up this 'anonymous voice' comes on stating that
I just violated reg # so-and-so because I did not do a run up and mag
check and prop cycle and I had not stopped at the hold short line and
yadda yadda...
Now, I had been ignoring this a-hole and his anonymous rantings for
the previous three or four years and it was just getting worse...
Because it was a dark, cold, December afternoon there were only 3 cars
on the entire field, in front of the terminal, so I knew where the
blowhard had to be... For whatever reason, he had finally flipped my
switch...
So I announced that the Viking was making a 180 and downwind emergency
landing! And I did... As I entered the terminal there were two guys
sitting there...
"Where is the a**hole?"
They laughed and pointed towards the road where I could see tail
lights disappearing in the rapidly gathering darkness... "He just
remembered his wife wanted him to get some bread for supper."
I left them with some specific instructions for the future for them to
relay to Mr. Radio... He apparently got the message because it has
been over ten years and while I see him on the field once in a while,
the radio has been silent...

Was he transmitting from the ground, outside an aircraft? If so, did he have
a license to do so?

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

Denny writes:

As the gear was coming up this 'anonymous voice' comes on stating
that I just violated reg # so-and-so because I did not do a run up
and mag check and prop cycle and I had not stopped at the hold short
line and yadda yadda...
Now, I had been ignoring this a-hole and his anonymous rantings for
the previous three or four years and it was just getting worse...
Because it was a dark, cold, December afternoon there were only 3
cars on the entire field, in front of the terminal, so I knew where
the blowhard had to be... For whatever reason, he had finally flipped
my switch...
So I announced that the Viking was making a 180 and downwind
emergency landing! And I did... As I entered the terminal there
were two guys sitting there...
"Where is the a**hole?"
They laughed and pointed towards the road where I could see tail
lights disappearing in the rapidly gathering darkness... "He just
remembered his wife wanted him to get some bread for supper."
I left them with some specific instructions for the future for them
to relay to Mr. Radio... He apparently got the message because it has
been over ten years and while I see him on the field once in a while,
the radio has been silent...

Was he transmitting from the ground, outside an aircraft? If so, did
he have a license to do so?


What's it to you?


you will never fly.

Ever


Bertie