Posted on Aug 29, 2015
What are some of the funniest controller stories you have experience?
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What are some of the funniest things that you or flow controllers around you have done by accident?
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Well, once when I was stationed at Ft Irwin, we had this comedian come and perform a show. He was starting a skit where he was poking fun at the MOS's in the Army (and some of them were damn funny), and so he started asking people what other MOS's are there in the crowd. This one young lady, sitting not too far away from my and my (now ex) wife, and she jumps up and says "FLIGHT CONTROLLER...I TELL OFFICERS WHERE TO GO!" And without skipping a beat, the comedian responds with..."And you probably tell Officers where to come, too." The young lady immediately turned red, covered her mouth to keep her beer from spewing, and ran out the door. I laughed pretty good.
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We had some AF expeditionary controllers setting up on Tinian. I was in on the first Big Green Garbage Machine flight in. Well the controllers were pissed. They got on the HF and were chewing out somebody. I figured it out when the first thing off the second flight in was an ice maker. Typical.
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If you include water flow, there have been many usually involving toilets with sometimes explosive results TSgt Melissa Post :-)
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LTC Stephen F.
TSgt Melissa Post
Sometimes when my sons were very young they would do their best to flush things down toilets that should never go down - toys, wash clothes, etc. During those days I became something of an expert in pulling up the toilet, snaking it out with some interesting results, and the resealing and replacing the toilet while confirming who the budding water flow technician was and doing my best to instill what should go down toilets :-)
Other experiences involved somebody putting drano in a toilet - in the military - that led to an explosive back blast of toilet water.
Fuel flow always had inherent risks. I was support platoon during the cold war in Germany in the early 1980s in mechanized infantry battalion. We were responsible for moving, storage, and dispensing of fuel [plus munitions]. It never ceased to amaze me how callous the fuel dispensers were with smoking near fuel - thankfully it was mogas and diesel not JP4. I am glad that we never had any fuel flow incidents:-)
Sometimes when my sons were very young they would do their best to flush things down toilets that should never go down - toys, wash clothes, etc. During those days I became something of an expert in pulling up the toilet, snaking it out with some interesting results, and the resealing and replacing the toilet while confirming who the budding water flow technician was and doing my best to instill what should go down toilets :-)
Other experiences involved somebody putting drano in a toilet - in the military - that led to an explosive back blast of toilet water.
Fuel flow always had inherent risks. I was support platoon during the cold war in Germany in the early 1980s in mechanized infantry battalion. We were responsible for moving, storage, and dispensing of fuel [plus munitions]. It never ceased to amaze me how callous the fuel dispensers were with smoking near fuel - thankfully it was mogas and diesel not JP4. I am glad that we never had any fuel flow incidents:-)
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Capt Seid Waddell
TSgt Melissa Post,
While serving as a Weapons Controller on Monkey Mountain RVN (outside of Da Nang), an F-4 pilot returning from a mission mentioned that it was the last mission of his tour. The controller asked him for a "Bubble Check" in which the plane flies between the search and height finder radomes as low as he dares fly.
The pilot agreed, and the controller notified the crew to go outside and watch. Unfortunately, when the F-4 flew over the commander was just coming up the mountain and his jeep had just turned onto the road running between the radomes when the F-4 passed head-on 20 or 30 feet over his head. The commander was not pleased.
When the crew saw the commander's jeep they dispersed, and no one seemed to have been aware of the over-flight. Of course, that was well within our ground clutter, so none of the controllers had a track on the F-4.
I was on scope at the time, so I never saw anything. Nobody got tagged for the incident to the best of my knowledge.
While serving as a Weapons Controller on Monkey Mountain RVN (outside of Da Nang), an F-4 pilot returning from a mission mentioned that it was the last mission of his tour. The controller asked him for a "Bubble Check" in which the plane flies between the search and height finder radomes as low as he dares fly.
The pilot agreed, and the controller notified the crew to go outside and watch. Unfortunately, when the F-4 flew over the commander was just coming up the mountain and his jeep had just turned onto the road running between the radomes when the F-4 passed head-on 20 or 30 feet over his head. The commander was not pleased.
When the crew saw the commander's jeep they dispersed, and no one seemed to have been aware of the over-flight. Of course, that was well within our ground clutter, so none of the controllers had a track on the F-4.
I was on scope at the time, so I never saw anything. Nobody got tagged for the incident to the best of my knowledge.
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