Four funny stories from Rhein Radar, Germany:
1. "Old" (I mean very experienced
) military controller, to be pensioned a few months later working a civilian sector during low traffic. he decides to give a BA flight some unconventional traffic info about traffic blocking climb:
Rhein: "Speedbird 123, just for info, traffic is coming out of the sun, 4 miles out 1000ft high a Lufthansa A320."
Speedbird 123: "Roger, switching from missiles to guns!"
2. Probably works much better when actually hearing this :P
Rhein: "Turkish 123, contact München 133.755"
THY123: "Roger, contact Mission, 133.755" (at least it sounded like "misson")
A/C: "Houston Hallo, Lufthansa 152 Fl290"
3. Female trainee fighting hard during a departure rush, constantly transmitting.
Rhein: "Alitalia 123,.... ah disregard."
4 transmissons later
Rhein: "Alitalia 123,.... ah disregard."
another 6 transmissions later, again:
Rhein: "Alitalia 123,.... ah disregard."
AZA123 (male, heavy italian accent): "Ah, do you want my telephone number?"
4. This apparently happened long before I started my ATC carreer. It was the day a pope died (dunno which one.. guess it was late 70s, early 80s?). As the news spread in the ops room, one military controller tuned in the guard frequencies 243.0 and 121.5 and made the follwoing call:
"All stations, this is RheinRadar with a generall call. Use extreme caution, the pope is climbing through unrestricted!"
He got some problems after that
