I don't know how Farnborough radar manage to always sound professional and not either laugh or cry when they hear an initial call like this which I heard earlier this month (and it wasn't me!!!) :
"Hello, Farnborough radar, we're a -err- fixed wing and we're flying from such-and-such airfield in such-and-such county to such-and-such airfield in such-and-such county and we're going to fly direct we'd like to fly through your area and I'm not sure of our height oh yes its about two thousand feet and we've got three people on board we're heading about north but it's a bit bumpy and we're going to need a squark I think"
