Air Traffic Control

email from a friend | 8/9/2018 | unknown

[Jamestown1630]

These are hilarious and I don’t even know much about planes.

[SkyDancer]

Old but great! One pilot I know has loaded Arnold Swartzenegger's (spelled that without spell check!) loaded into his iPhone and when things get hectic he'll pop one off such as when cleared for T/O he'll pop out "Aal be beck!"

>ping to list

[Portcall24]

I’m sitting in a darkroom on a mountain top in Vietnam when a flight of F-4’s check in on my frequency. “Portcall, Hammer 51 (pronounced five one) 345 for 60 off channel 71 and we have the numbers.”
“Roger Hammer 51, Portcall 24, squawk flash for positive ID. Weather is winds from west at 10 knots and temperature 91.”
“Rogers Port call, I said WE HAVE THE NUMBERS.”
OK I had been controlling for several months and this was the first time anyone had played this card on me. “Roger, radar contact.”
Pretty soon on my freq, “Portcall, Sharkbait 21, 270 for 45 off channel 71.”
“Roger Sharkbait 21, Portcall 24, squawk flash for positive ID, Do you have the numbers?”
Very long pause and finally this weak voice (probably the GIB) comes back, “Roger Portcall, tail numbers are 63-7542.” When I got off scope we were all laughing about it and it never happened again.

[Sequoyah101]

Might be old but still good for a laugh.

thanks.