Overheard on ATC

[lowlycfi]

I could have swore I heard someone say "Cleveland Steamer" instead of "Cleveland Center" the other day....

 

[Motive Flow]

Heard this a couple of years ago climbing out of PIT on CLE center freq:

(USAirways pilot with a thick southern drawl)

"Clev-burgh Center USAir ###, 9000 for 14,000 direct Briggs."

(5 seconds pass with no answer)

"...Over?"

Classic!:laugh:

 

[COOPERVANE]

N118AT: No, I am over dee water...................


Spit out my milk on that one!!!!

 

[phishn@daves]

N118AT: No, I am over dee water...................


Spit out my milk on that one!!!!

Was it chocolate milk from your Avatars breast?

 

[Headfake14]

...plaid...thats funny...I'm gonna have to use some copyright infringement here and use that one day

 

[Headfake14]

...when CHQ fisrt started flying out of ATL...the dep ctrler on 125.0 called them "chickentaco". We were rolling...of course they didn't answer that call

 

[Headfake14]

Heard this one from an old ATC'er who swears it happened. If you spent any time around DAB you'll appreciate it.

N118AT: (In your best mid east accent) Daytona Approaching Controll, I am Vun Vun Eet Alpva Tango for landing instructions"

DAB App: 118AT say your position.

N118AT: Yes yes, for landing please.

DAB App: Sir, what is your position from Daytona?

N118AT: Dirka Dirka Mohammed Jihad (or something like that)

After a few more unsuccessful attempts:

DAB App: N118AT, are you over DeLand? (a GA field just outside the DAB class C)

N118AT: No, I am over dee water...................

I heard about something like that when I was down there...classic

 

[Headfake14]

...this may get lengthy... Not on the radio, but on the PA

In the chick-magnet...er...in the ATRah one day. Getting ready to push from D26. The electro lifts us up and something goes wrong with it and we get lifted waaaaay up...and it won't let us down. Called MTC yada yada yada. They bring out some hydraulic jacks and a crowd draws in around us...

Meeeeeeeaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnwhillllllllllllleeeeeeeeee

I'm being captain extrodinair making a couple PAs. as follows, or somehithing like it

"folks from the flt.deck, welcome aboa blah blah blah...well our push back tug has malfunctioned and we're sort of stuck on top of it. So MTC is on their way out and I believe we'll have to get jacked off. Shouldn't take too long but once we're jacked off this tug and".......................then I realized what I said. NOPE...couldn't finish the PA.

 

[fastbird]

I heard a tower guy do this one...
TWR: AF1, cleared to land runway 25L
AF1: Negative, AF1 is landing on 19R
TWR: AF1, be advised 19R is not the active
AF1: It is now.
TWR: (with a new voice) Roger AF1 is cleared land any runway.

 

[epps]

Gotta love the Alpha Tango's in Daytona Beach...

It is a true story. The person was actually one of my students. He was from India and like so many that train in DAB, he could barely speak English.

He was over a lake (Disston) which is just north of Deland when he called. The controller said xxxAT we have you about 10 miles north of Deland. To this day I can still hear him saying with his Indian accent, "Oh no Daytona, xxxAT is over the water, not over the land".