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Old 9th Dec 2008, 05:03
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Scooby Don't
 
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Cap.hany, please habibi, can you post in a normal font? Also, controllers are not captains! You will get more replies if you remember that....

In the spirit of comradeship (Eid Mubarak, by the way), after 13 years or so in ATC, the following is a partial list of situations I've faced. Most controllers will have a similar list.

Radar failure

Radio failure (at ATC - resolved with use of stand-by radios)

Radio failure (aircraft)

Engine failures

Assymetric flap deployment

Partial hydraulic failures/hydraulic leaks

Nosewheel steering failure

Cracked windshields (yes, plural!)

Level/altitude busts

Language "issues"

Weather avoidance

Unknown fast traffic popping up into controlled airspace ("one o'clock, half a mile, going up....")

Zone infringements

Runway infringements

Flooded taxiway

Overheating Spitfire shutting down on a narrow taxiway

Fire in avionics bay/smoke in cockpit

and a few more besides. Also, on a Lufthansa 747-400, it really p*ssed me off that every other passenger seemed to be using the toilet seat cover dispenser as a garbage bin. I once slept in and was half an hour late for a morning shift, and got soundly berated by the WM while I was plugged in.... And the time I was asked to escort a group of "young ladies from British Airways" around the tower, they turned out to be a captain's 11-year old daughter and her school chums rather than the trolley dollies I was hoping for.
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