Another couple I've overheard:
1968 from a student pilot in a Cessna 150:
"Cranfield Tower, Bedsair Charlie Mike, engine failure...request advice"
"Bedsair Charlie Mike, Roger. State position and intentions"
"Charlie Mike....I've just turned off onto the taxyway and the engine has stopped."
"Have you tried restarting?"
"Negative"
"Well, do so! If it starts, continue taxying!"
1976 from a Hunter pilot:
"Brawdy Tower, this is Red 2. I think I'm going to crash...."
Shortly followed by:
"I just have! Could you send a fire wagon?".
He'd just started taxying, one brake seized and he swung into the adjacent aircraft before he could stop.
Waiting at the hold at an RAFG station on our way home after yet another double IRT/Bierflug in the mighty VC10K, we are watching an Albert waddling rather uncertainly down the approach. It then smites the runway very hard indeed with clouds of tyre smoke; the wings sag noticeably before it staggers back into the air...
"Tower, Ascot **** ready for departure. We'll need to pull forward of the RHAG.....and these newly formed craters"
Peeved Herk QFI "We all had to learn once"
Anonymous voice "Clearly!"
Much chuckling and we're on our way. But I've never seen such a heavy C-130 landing as I saw that day!
Last edited by BEagle; 21st Aug 2013 at 08:04.