MPN11,
Yes, I always made a point of impressing on my students that, one day in their future careers, something would happen to them that had happened to no man before and would probably never happen again. I would say that every one of us old-time Instructors had such a story in his repertoire, but forebore to introduce it into the Mock Control sessions, as nobody would believe it, and we would be accused of making up impossible situations just to "throw" them.
Have a care, sir, for you speak of the idiot I love (me) ! You are thinking of the occasion when I brought operations at Strubby to a grinding halt with the Matador heading the MPN-1 convoy (on a runway change) out of fuel, and people (for some strange reason) seemed to think it was all my fault.
Of course it
would be at the exact spot on the taxiway where we constituted a giant thrombus which stopped all aircraft movements until we were removed !
Danny.