<<LATCC: USAir XXX descend to altitude 4000', QNH 1017 millibars.
USAir: Roger descend to altitude 4000' and do you have that in inches.
LATCC: Affirm, USAir, descend to altitude 48000 inches.>>
And
ATC: USAir XXX descend to altitude 4000', QNH 1017 millibars.
USAir female pilot: Roger descend to altitude 4000' and do you have that in inches.
Unknown c/s: Give it to her slow, inch by inch.
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And 2 201 Sqn Nimrods, unpopular AEO heard on freq: Other Nimrod chimes in “Falcon 21” whereupon AEO responds “Falcon 21 pass your message”
Back on the sqn, in Ops, a large poster with the decode of Falcon 21 greets AEO on landing.
Vulcan, en route El Adem, AEO having handled all the radios over France, Malta etc, calls up El Adem and asks for the weather.
Copilot, having called El Adem on the other box, quick as a flash, broadcasts the El Adem weather to the AEO.
“This is El Adem, read back correct.”
DOH