Hi Folks:
While there are many funny things I recall from my days as an instructor, the first one which comes to mind happened in Vancouver, British Columbia about 30 years ago involving radio communications.
Vancouver was very busy in those days and we would fly our students dual to a smaller outlying airport for them to use when doing solo practice. Instructors would do all the radio work until the student was fairly proficient with radio at other airports before trying to get a word in with ATC at YVR.
The first time this particular student did a radio call to Vancouver Ground, he got slightly mixed up on the phonetics for the call and used "Underwood Hotel" as part of the callsign. Controller came back on a very busy frequency and said "Lots of radio traffic, several all on at once, but I think I heard someone calling from the Underwood Hotel and I used to drink there a lot in my younger days, so go ahead."
For some reason that one stuck with me.
Regards to all,
Fog
Last edited by The Old Fogducker; 15th Sep 2004 at 19:56.