“Aircraft Lands Safely at Heathrow – British Media and Pilots dumbfounded at strange concept called Airmanship”
As Australia’s sporting achievements in the Commonwealth Games mount, the British aviation community is devastated that an Australian aircraft has gone against the trends by turning up unannounced and apparently landing Safely.
British Air Traffic Control were amazed that the Australian Registered Aircraft had been detected by numerous countries prior to arriving in UK airspace and had in fact been providing continual position reports, yet seemingly, despite talking to British air traffic control, and showing up on their advanced radar screens, they still had not seen it.
“It was amazing” One controller is reported to have said. “One minute it was on our screens, the next minute it was still on our screens and they were talking to us – BY RADIO would you believe, and even asking for our assistance in choosing a runway to ensure a safe landing”. He further went on to comment that he was irritated that a pilot had the nerve to ask for any form of ground assistance.
Another controller was seen to be taking pictures of the non-damaged aircraft. When asked why, he said “that we rarely have aircraft land here undamaged, so I want to have a picture for my scrap book”.
They were further outraged when the pilot of this aircraft demonstrated a concept they had not heard of called “Airmanship”. British pilots all over we seen to consult their operations manuals to see if “airmanship” was installed in their aircraft. One pilot is rumoured to have said “Our planes have not had that feature installed – we’re hopefully getting it next year”.
An investigation into this tragic non-event is apparently underway.
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