Funny Air Traffic Quotes

[Nigel H-J]

Came across this site by accident so next time you are on a long haul with time to spare.........

http://www.businessballs.com/airtraffic ... quotes.htm

Nigel.

[dodger]

Some great ones there Nigel,

Cheers,

Roger.

[Garry Russell]

Many of those were supposed to be genuine and predate the quotes.

The bits falling off a DC 8 was attributed to a Bristol freighter and a DC 8 and the B747 pilot saying he's been there before but didn't stop was reported in 1958 as a BEA Viscount at Dusseldorf which is likely as he could have been a bomber pilot in 1944.

[NigelC]

 
  "St Louis approach control:"

 St. Louis approach to United: "United 123 best forward speed to the marker, you're number one."

United 123 ("male voice"): "Roger, balls to the wall."

St. Louis approach to American: "American 4321, you're number two behind a United 737, follow him, cleared visual, best forward speed."

American 4321 ("female voice"): "Well I can't do balls to the wall, but I can do wide open."

-Long radio silence-Unidentified Pilot ("male voice"): "Is American hiring?"   

[dfarrow]

Hi guys , this is genuine as I heard it earlier this summer ! ATC to a/c about to practice a display routine.. '' Caution , we have 2 Pumas flying by , have you seen them ? ''
Reply ... '' Tally Ho and Good Oh , I've not shot one down for 30 yrs '' !


........ and it was true !


Rgds and a Happy New Year to all .

dave f

[Chris Trott]

From AW (Mar 2010):

I met an SR-71 pilot a few years ago. (SR-71 was the USAAF advanced 'stealth' reconnaissance aircraft known as the Blackbird). He told me this story from his first flight with a new co-pilot: An SR-71 and crew were flying over Southern California when a bug smasher came on the airwaves in a dorky voice: Cessna 152: Ground Control, What's my airspeed? Ground Control: 100 at FL 100. A few moments later a cocky voice came on: Mooney M20: Ground Control, What's MY airspeed? Ground Control: 240 at FL 240. By this time the SR pilot was seething, but since communications were the duty of his new co-pilot, he remained silent. A few moments of radio silence passed, and in the calmest voice imaginable the co-pilot keyed in: SR-71: Ground Control, What's our airspeed? Ground Control: 1875 at FL 800. There were no more speed checks called in that afternoon, and the pilot knew that he had a cool partner in the back seat.

This one is covered in the book "Sled Driver", by Brian Shul as he was the pilot on the flight in question. Brian, an SR-71 pilot and his RSO, Walt, were the crew that experienced this and he loves recounting it with Walt (as they did, completing each other's sentences, when I met them in person at the Frontiers of Flight a few years ago) as it's one of those moments that really solidified why the USAF wanted "bonded" crews that always flew together. Flying a plane that sophisticated was hard enough as it was. If you had a crew that could literally finish each other's thoughts, then that problem became much more manageable than if you used mix-and-match crews as they had been doing prior with other 2-seat aircraft.

Here's the full text - http://wesclark.com/burbank/sr_71.html