In the days before I became an instructor I was an air trafficker.
Now cast your minds back to the days when we had an airforce and RAF Finningley daily dispatched flottilas of Varsity aircraft in the hope of circumnavigating the United Kingdom.
I was a radar controller at Moray Radar (RNAS Lossiemouth) when my eleventh Varsity student navigator checks in with...
"Moray Radar FYG (loud bang rather like nav rul e bouncing of a bone dome followed by anther voice "WRONG") FGY58(bang "WRONG")85 25 miles SE (bang "WRONG")SW Aberdeen .......
Seemed to work by the time he passed abeam the field he was word perfect. Always wondered if he got through the course..