Rac/Ops
You are right it could not have been 777, must have been 747 but it was after a long day and in a busy terminal (do not pay much attention to a/c fleet on Quantas as I do not use them) so that,s my excuse:O. Still comment made me smile as that airport had its fare share of teething issues at the time and this was just one of the funnier things that I experianced in transit in the first few months :).

Even harder, in fact impossible to find a Quantas one!!!

Ok I was tired I give in !!!:ouch:

Fussy and boring, typical examples of air traffic controllers :E

"We want to taxi to groundco on landing"

"Roger, are you familiar with their location?"

"Negarive, we'll need a white stick"

Prestwick has one of the longest runways in the UK, it also has two fling clubs so on any given day there can be anything from a micro light to an Antonov or Galaxy arriving or departing. As I was taxing out there was a C150 had just taxied out and a 747F had come in behind it.

Atc: Cessna g-xxxx cleared for take off

C150:cleared for take off

Atc: 747F after departing C150 line up an wait, caution wake turbulence :-D

<<Fussy and boring, typical examples of air traffic controllers>>

Aha.. we have a Tels bloke in our midst!

Well Prestwick is in Scotland so what do you expect? ;)
It's also the place where an ATCO made my day with the instruction to a USAF C130 "Give way to the Cessna 152 ....." I was the pilot in the 152. :)

3am at a major middle east hub airport.....

"delivery morning (xxxx125) (xxx=large middle eastern carrier bent on worldwide domination) request clearance .......xc fora dirndl "blocked"

"delivery xxxx564 request clearance to JFK.....dhrnwbdrh John "BLOCKED"

This continued for another two minutes before delivery replied...

"all xxxx aircraft requesting clearance shut up will you! I will get to you one at a time...."

" Ah delivery....that's gonna make us late...can I blame you?"

"negative blame your poxy scheduling department....":}:}:}:}

Whoever generates the callsigns at Specsavers has a sense of humour.

Had 'SPECSAVERS241' on frequency the other week which neither the pilot or myself managed to say without a small giggle.

Good job he didn't divert into Luton by mistake!

Do spec savers run their own aircraft? :-O

Specsavers flight ops in Channel Islands
 

Unless they have changed, a Beech 200 for corporate transport, as well as collect and delivery of optical orders, then the UK outlets. Factory is in CI.

glf

2 Beech 350s, as corporate shuttles. No freight carried, and factories are all in the uk.

sorry thought factory in Gurnsey
 

Did they have a factory in GCI, saw many boxes of freight several years ago, in GCI.

Sorry believed B200....I stand corrected.



glf

Sorry glf, I could have answered better!

The Guernsey operation is one of the 3 main UK offices, others in Nottingham and Fareham.

Guernsey also has 2 warehouses (there are another 15 worldwide) that import and distribute frames to the UK. The warehouses are there for historical reasons - there's not a tax angle!

The King Airs fly scheduled services daily to EGHI and twice weekly to EGNX - and elsewhere according to business needs.

A/C "ABC123 request FL3600"

ATC "Roger ABC123 report re-entry."

Not humour as such, and probably been heard around before, but my first time hearing the Callsign "Specsavers 241" on London Control this morning. The chap on the radio was obviously a good company man as he was shortening the pronunciation of the '4'

Mooning
 

Australian capital city airport, sun has just set and moon is rising majestically over the ranges:

B737 has just vacated the runway and is taxiing to the terminal.
As the aircraft truns a corner on the taxiway, the (senior sounding) pilot, overwhelmed by the beautiful vista through the windscreen says over the radio, "That's a magnificent moon!".

The ground controller responds with, "Whoops, I didn't think you'd be able to see me from over there".

That's great. Best post on here for ages!

747 calling in:

Pilot: Mach .84 direct XXXXX, FL370
ATC: Can you reduce to Mach .80?
Pilot: Yes, we'll try and stay airborne with that!