The second was at a commercial airport in Texas. The controller responded with "Skipper 3846 Sierra cleared for the option break break attention all aircraft caution watertory migrafowl reported north of the airfield." After a pause somebody responded "You mean, like, birds?" The controller, without hestitation, replied, "Yes sir!" A student doing touch-and-go's reported flying past some geese on his downwind leg. The first was as a small General Aviation airport in the midwest. One of them I'm sure is a true story, because I was there when it happened the other is completely consistent with his personality. This from Tom Comeau, April 2007 - My brother is an air traffic controller, and has two favorite conversations he recounts. Please identify yourself." After a moment, one of the pilots reported, "This is flight 123 and we are negative on the bull****." A moment after that, another flight reported in, "This is flight 456 and we are also negative on the bull****." One by one, each and every one of the flights reported in as being "negative on the bull****." Almost immediately, one of the pilots responded with, "Bull****!" The controller then said something to the effect of, "Sir, the use of profane language is prohibited on this channel by FAA and FCC regulations. One of the controllers came on and reported something happened to cause a further delay and that those planes in a holding pattern would need to stay there. (For those who don't know, AARP is the American Association of Retired Persons, and CRJ stands for Canadair Regional Jet.)įrom Andrew Walker, May 2007 - A friend of the family used to fly for US Air, and told us this tale of how one day his plane was one of many trying to land at a busy airport. Northwest 605: "Roger, we will follow the Smurf-Jet."įlagship 5600: "At least my airplane does not qualify for an AARP membership." Ground: "Northwest 605 taxi to runway **, follow the CRJ, you will be number two." Northwest 605: "Northwest 605 request taxi to the active MSP." My co-pilot did not hear it and gave me a strange look when I was doubled-over laughing. Pilot: "Well, I can tell you one thing, it was a white boy flying it."įrom Mitch Reilly, May 2007 - I was listening to the radio, doing a preflight at MSP and heard the following exchange. IAD Tower: "Delta 560, how close was it?" Pilot (catching his breath), "Near miss- was he ever close!" IAD Tower: "Delta 560, what seems to be the problem?" A near miss occurred outside of Dulles International. No other attribution unfortunately but here it is.
Please keep them coming.įrom Brad White, June 2007 - One to share, from an uncle who was in the USAF until retiring several years ago.
I am grateful for these ATC and aviation quotes and stories sent to me by various people after this page appeared in the digg, AOL and stumbleupon communities. Tell ya what, i'll copy and paste it for you, 'cus im nice like that Found this little gem after a brief google search
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