Im currently working as a CFI in california and get to hear a whole bunch of funny things from both students and ATC.
A couple of weeks ago after landing on Victorvilles 15000ft of runway with our C172 my student contacted ground once of the runway.
"Victorville ground Cessna xx at E3 request taxi to the active"
"Cessna XX Victorville ground ehhhhh okey so do you need the taxi back for the full 15000 ft or is an intersection takeoff okey?"
My student started looking around and after a short pause "Well sir we wont need the full distance, could we depart from where we came instead?"
Ended up with a nice 270 departure over the boneyard of old airplanes
Another one was when I was heading back home with a student that had some troubles with the radio. At this point we were cruising along with our BE76 at 6000 ft at approximately 120kts direct to Mission Bay VOR when an Alaskan 737 checks in with similiar numbers on their callsign.
ATC: Alaskan 509 maintain 16000 ft, 180kts until mission bay expect the visual 27.
Radio scrambles a bit but before I hear a response from the Alaskan I hear a familiar voice reading back the clearence. I turn around and see my student looking at me with a confused face just as he finished replying to the clearence.
"He said mission bay but... now what?"
Haha I laughed, the controller laughed and the alaskan laughed. Made my day anyways.
