Originally Posted by
airpolice
Day one at RAF Shawbury, the Central Air Traffic Control School, and the first part of the first lesson is...
Spell your surname, backwards, phonetically.
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I remember that from my PPL GS. The student the instructor pick responded with “ Oscar Tango Tango Oscar “ so he picked another student who was from some obscure Eastern European country. His name had just about every letter in the alphabet and doing it backwards was a challenge for the owner even without using the phonetic alphabet. After about a minute of torture the instructor finally gave up and said OK., my name is Wilson, spell that backwards !