He stood there and myself and other He read the checklist which included checking the stall horn. Since the Cessna has a "musical instrument" stall horn - instead of one of those electric stall horns - the way to check it is by hand (or, in this case, by mouth).
I got all excited because although it was on my preflight checklist throughout my 8 months of training to become a private pilot in 2011, I'd never been able to try it.
You see, I flew a 152 but even then I was just a bit too short to grab a rag and suck on the stall horn opening which sits inside the wing. Rather than make me get a stepping stool or ladder, my instructor told me constantly "during the checkride, if the DPE asks why you did not test the stall horn, tell him you did - during your last landing - and that it works because you heard it go off."
So you bet when I heard the A&P say "check stall horn" I volunteered.
Someone grabbed me a stool. Trying as hard as I could, with a disposable rag in front of my mouth, I could not make the stall horn sound. So I got rid of the rag and tried again. Problem was, I was wearing lipstick. As you can imagine, though I still couldn't make the sound, when I stepped down from the stool, there were KISS MARKS on the white wing. Hilarious.
