I'm interested in aircraft, but I can't say I'm a spotter. Not as much as a Manchester controller thought I was one day, at least. I was told to follow a CRJ. A small aircraft with 2 engines and a t-tail taxys past, so I follow it. The controller gets very upset as we're now out of sequence, and being in a 747 we have to take off out off turn as there's no way of manouevring back in.
"I told you to follow a CRJ. You followed an EMB155" he says!
Long silence, followed by the only reply I could think of:
"Listen mate, I'm paid to fly them - not spot them!"
The Dubai controllers used to do the same. They were always telling us to follow an Emirates 777 or an Emirates A330. It took me a while to work out which was which. The winglets gave it away.
Last edited by Dan Winterland; 30th Apr 2007 at 09:41.
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