Share your failures!

[ehunyadi]

I've had the latch failure/door opening after rotation on three RL flights; twice in a 150, once in a 152. The first time it happened, I was still
with my instructor, and I said, "Hey, the door just opened." The instructor, an 87 year old pilot and veteran pilot in WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam said,
"Is that all?" We laughed and continued up to a safer altitude to close the door. I also had a magneto failure about an hour into a flight... not too
scary, but it was noticeable and we landed as quickly as we could. I also had what was considered a near miss by the FAA twice. Both were with CH-46
helicopters. Since I was flying out of MCAS El Toro (KNZJ), there was lots of military traffic there, and our practice area was shared by the CH-46's
from MCAS Tustin (KNTK). The helicopters are camouflaged very well; well enough that I didn't see one of them until it was too late. We got so close I
could hear his rotors. The second time was on landing; I thought Tower said "Land after the intersection (of runways)" but instead, they said "Land
before the intersection." I kept altitude until after the intersection and put down. What I didn't know (and never saw) was the CH-46 pass about 5-8'
over me. CFR trucks were coming out because they thought for sure we'd have touched or worse. And all this while I was just learning to fly in Class-C
airspace!

I documented my sole FSP failure to date (so far!!) earlier in this thread.