I read a story a long time ago about a pilot who would say to the tower in Biloxi "Guess who?" After this happened a few times, someone turned off the runway lights and said "Biloxi; guess where?"
Great Stuff!
Love them funny as heck... especially the dreaded 7 engine approach comment.
Once upon a time there was Braniff Airlines, and God only knows why they decided to paint their planes in pastels. Powder blue, blushing pink, all that kind of stuff. The Love Field airport people in Dallas had a good time. One Braniff pilot asked if he could make take-off and was told, "Yes, dear. Ta-ta!"
They do have a tendency to forget that at times.
hehehehe!!
This is hilarious!
I'm gonna send it off to
hubby to pass along to
his old squadron buddies.
Thanks for the post, and
the laffs. ;o)
bump for later...
Too bad there are no examples of radio exchanges at any French airport.
Bump.
LOL ping.
I was an air traffic controller assigned to the Berlin Air Route Traffic Control Center for '84-'88. This is the facility that worked all traffic to and from Berlin through the 3 Berlin Air Corridors, mostly French, British, and US airliners. What a lot of people did not know was that there were about 15 Soviet and East German Mig bases located in the corridors. Their traffic would fly through the corridors without any coordination or control from us. Naturally, whenever we saw their traffic in the corridors we would issue it to our traffic. One night a buddy of mine was working the enroute sector and must have had a fairly new British pilot. Behind him was a Pan Am aircraft. A Mig decided he wanted to come up behind the British aircraft and see what he looked like. The controller kept giving the British pilot traffic on the Mig. Slowly, the Mig closed the distance behind the British aircraft so naturally the controller gave him that info. You could tell that the British pilot was getting a little nervous with this Mig flying a few miles directly behind him and finally asked the controller what he should do. Before the controller could say anything, the Pan Am pilot, who must have been from Texas, came on the frequency and said "Ya'll oughta just go back and flush your toilets!" It took a while to pick the controller up off the floor he was laughing so hard.
Oh, my gut is busting.... I've read some of this before. I believe it was in a book written by a "sled" driver (U-2 pilot).
I received this email recently
Reminds me or private pilot jokes.
Explaining the parts of the plane to a newbie, "This is the prop. It is what keeps the pilot cool."
"How?"
"Well, if it stops, you'll see the pilot start sweating profusely!"
ping for later
Just then an unknown pilot broke the silence and keyed his microphone,
asking: "Wasn't I married to you once?"
BWAHAHAHAHAHA ...... love that one.
Chicago control tower: Lufthansa 727, you are cleared to take off please take off.
Captain of Lufthansa 727: My manifest does not agree with my passenger count; I will not depart until it does.
Another pilot from an American airline: Have you checked your ovens?
Lufthansa pilot: I refuse to take off until I receive an apology from the person who just called in.
Another airline pilot: This is Captain Smith from American Smith Airlines - I apologize.
The German pilot took off.
btt