Yeah, I'm kinda an idiot

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ssmdive

Well-Known Member

Dec 22, 2016

So here I am getting checked out in a J3.... I am on the down wind and because we are at a busy airport with 3 crossing runways, I go to make a radio call on the handheld mounted to my left near the window.

I push the side mounted push to talk on the side.... And the radio unclips from the mount and flies out the window. It is dangling there for a second as I reach for it, and then it falls away into the swamp 800 feet below.

Most expensive checkout I have ever had.