Heard this on Jabiru CTAF a few weeks ago and was mortified:
'XXX, Jabiru Ground.'
*A long pause*
'XXX, this is Jabiru Ground, how do you read?'
*A further long pause, before, more exasperatedly then before*
'XXX, Jabiru Ground!'
'Jabiru Ground, XXX, Go ahead.'
'You've been parked in front of the fuel bowser with the engines running for ages, three charters have already departed and it's made a mess of everything. Can you move?'
*To my eternal shock and amazement I hear the following*
'XXX, I was waiting for an IFR clearance. Too bad.'
Some people should be refused licenses on the basis of a lack of common decency and any modicum of airmanship. I'd forgotten that some drivers out there think they are God's gift.
