What's a plumber? Never heard that in a lifetime of birding!!

Maybe a misheard plover?

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TB, did they get him from Birmingham or Cranfield? :E :uhoh:

Overheard a few days ago at Yeadon: a pilot in an aircraft belonging to a local company requested his clearance to "M'lager". Obviously anticipating a reyhdration break at Malaga (or maybe a comment on what he believed to be the future activities of his passengers.) :E

YouTube - JFK ground
YouTube - Chicago ATC Conga Line Vectoring

:}:}:}

It's what she said - I just passed on the message :)

It probably was a plumber!!! I mean maximum runway utilisation and all that!!!:ugh:

Heard this one from a friend who flew a ferryflight up north in Sweden.

A company flight was also northbound for a different airport and being in the middle of the night, they were more or less the only two aircraft on the frequency.

ATC 1- "X-jet 123, contact Sweden 132.150"
X-jet 123 - "Sweden 132.150, good evening"
ATC 1- "X-jet 321, also over to Sweden 132.150, evening"
X-jet 321 - "Sweden 132.150, evening"

Both switch to the new frequency but there's no room for both at the same time on the next frequency. They both block each other on 132.150. A very bored female controller who probably hasn't handled any flights for the past hour asks:

ATC 2 "okay, who was first"
X-jet 123 "pick me, pick me, pick me!"

The controller apparantly breaks down in laughter.

Sorry if I didn't do the story justice if anyone who was there reads this, but I thought it was funny...

/LnS

About to re-take!
 

Hey guys, been reading through all the pages for information.

Last year I applied and past the 1st, 2nd stage and then tooked the 3rd stage and didn't make it through. I was disappointed but after doing my research I realised that you can take light from it and realise many ATC's fail the first time around so I can re-apply in 12 months with experience. I did phone and e-mail NATS for feedback on my Stage 3 assessment and I heard nothing back which was disappointing. I kinda knew where I went wrong anyway's but you'd expect NATS to give out feedback.

I am going to re-apply very soon but I was wondering if I could get a bit of help from anyone which would be much appreciated.

1.) Where's the best place to arrange a tower visit and has anyone done it recently where they can give me any contact numbers etc. (this is one thing I didn't do on my first time around)

2.) Can anyone give any information about what's life is like as a student at the college and their job as a ATC where its area or aerdrome, pros and cons (had information before but new opinions and experiences are very useful)

Thank you very much,

Scott :ok:

Probably better asking those questions on the NATS recruitment thread and not the ATC humour thread :}

and Sometimes it's hard to tell which one's which ;)

but he gives his location as Heathrow, the biggest aviation joke of them all.

Seriously, if you can't differentiate betwen the two sections I suggest looking for another career

Tree munts agoo ai coen't evan spel air travvic contruller now I are van! :O

Ps: Maastricht guys why don't you ever react when I call you Mestreech?

ATIS
 

Don´t recall seeing this on the thread, I think it went more or less like this:

A/C: ZZZ APP, Good mornig, AirXXX B737 at....
ATC: AirXXX, Good morning, confirm you have info Mike
A/C: Affirmative, AirXXX
ATC: LIAR! Current ATIS msg is Lima!
A/C (without hesitation): I thought you weren´t supposed to pull that one more than once a day...

YouTube - Controller Tricks A Pilot
:E

Wide or Right

A/C: "XXX on wide base 18."
TWR: "XXX, confirm left base."
A/C: "Affirm, wi... long left base."

Limburgs. Zijn wij gewent.

1998 Taxiing out to RWY 23 in GVA behind a Speedbird who was already late for his slot and traffic at 5-6NM out.

GVA TWR employed (maybe still do-not there so often now) a a very suave-voiced lady ATC who was trying to be helpful to get Speedbird off with out more delay to make the slot and in front of arriving traffic;

GVA: Speedbird 7xx are you ready for a quickie?
SPD: ahh.. I'd love to m'am, but I have to go to London first!

That made my day and ATC story for some time. Poor old Swiss German co-pilot 'Aye deedunt geht it!??

That´s the one!
 

Tks Diaz :ok:. Way funnier heard than read!