Short Final

I was flying a particularly noisy pusher seaplane back to KPIE one day. These things have the engine right over your head and between the straight-through exhaust and prop swinging by the fuselage. They are super noisy. On my first radio call to the tower, they came back with:“Transmission unreadable. Just a loud noise.” I keyed up again, using my loud voice:“Just a second. Let me shut off the engine.” The tower replied:“No! Nooo!” It was then obvious to me that my intention to go to idle power had been misinterpreted…. Mike Dwyervia e-mail