United XXX [female voice]: "Can United XXX expect full length?"
Without missing a beat the New Yorker in the Tower says:
"Why yes ma'am, and you can expect full width too!"
At SFO about ten years ago, a Westair (callsign: Sundance) EMB-120 is taxiing out to 28L:
Tower: "And Sundance 115, you'll be number three behind the DC-10."
115: "One fifteen, roger....(pause, click click)...From the flightdeck, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard United Express flight 115, service to Arcata, we're number three for takeoff, and we'll be flying at an altitude of....(etc etc full PA announcement)..."
Someone else: "Uh, yeah. Can we get a couple of beers to go with that?"
Another pilot: "And don't forget to tell the passengers too."
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Friend of mine flying for that fruity airline out of Atlanta told me this one (I don't remember what company the commuter pilot flew for):
Commuter 123: (young female voice, sounds like just out of grade school) "Cleveland Center, Commuter 123, any chance of a shortcut today?"
CLE Center: (gruff ol' controller) "Uhh, standby 123, let me check on that."
Someone else on freq: "Yeah, her whole career has been a shortcut, why stop now?"
CLE Center: "Ah, Ma'am? Do you still want that shortcut now?"
heard this one back in my flight instructing days at DVT
The pattern was swamped as usuall and the tower controller just lost it over the radio when somebody didn't report at the right spot
long silence after the verbal beating........
somebody "you know tower you guys are the second best controllers around"
tower "WHO IS THE FIRST" (the guy was still pissed)
somebody "everybody else!"
CLT tower controller asked us to keep the landing roll short last night since a jet was flying up our butts. The captain was flying and did a great job.
After turning off the runway, I just had to ask the controller if she had hugged her prop trash today.
"Ground, Comair xxx at 3F, Taxi."
"Comair xxx, pull out a little on 'J', but don't commit to either direction (for taxi)."
"Roger, we'll pull out of Juliette without making a commitment."
TWR: Continental XXX position and hold
Continental: Roger, position and hold
TWR: Continental XXX clrd for takeoff
Continental: Sir we have can't take that clearance, we just had a PAX go into the lavatory
Unkown: you better hope thats not a Number 2 there
-silence-
Continental: Must have been a number one, we are good to go.
Another one last summer when 14/32 was closed and the wind was gusting strong.
APP: UAL XXX d/m 6000 expect rwy 6R
UAL: App we are going to need rwy 14
APP: UAL XXX, unable
UAL: APP, we really do need rwy 14
APP: UAL, well if you guys really want it I can have you hold untill October and then I'll give you 14.
UAL: We'll take 6R
Back in the day when I was flying a traffic watch 172 over Las Vegas, I heard a pilot for one of the skydiving operations out of Boulder City check on with Las Vegas Approach: "Las Vegas Approach Skydive XX requesting Bravo clearance for a training flight."
"Skydive XX, Roger, cleared into Class Bravo, will there be any skydivers today?"
"This is only a training flight."
"Roger, are you going to need to drop jumpers or not?"
"Roger"
"SKYDIVE XX ARE PEOPLE GOING TO FALL OUT OF YOUR AIRPLANE OR NOT?!?"
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