THe small things that make your day
Man Bilong Balus long PNG
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Location: Looking forward to returning to Japan soon but in the meantime continuing the never ending search for a bad bottle of Red!
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Cruising around some bush strips NE of Kerema in the Gulf province of PNG quite some years ago. Cancelled SAR on HF and thought I recognised the FSO's voice as belonging to a very lovely young PNG lass I was aquainted with at the time.
Quoth I; "Is that you Veronica?"
Promptly, firmly but politely came the reply....
"Sorry, wrong number!;
Oops!!
You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.
Quoth I; "Is that you Veronica?"
Promptly, firmly but politely came the reply....
"Sorry, wrong number!;
Oops!!
You only live twice. Once when
you're born. Once when
you've looked death in the face.
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Not really relevant to this topic but here it is anyway.
During the early days of my training, my instructor asked me to report our position to the ATC. He told me "K Shif....tell me Grob Julliet .....Sierra is at bla bla bla at 1000'' inbound with Charlie." Too mezmerized with the lessons, I said "AAh Shif.......tell the goons that Grob Julliet Victor Sierra is at........."
Dont repent it now, though
Richie
During the early days of my training, my instructor asked me to report our position to the ATC. He told me "K Shif....tell me Grob Julliet .....Sierra is at bla bla bla at 1000'' inbound with Charlie." Too mezmerized with the lessons, I said "AAh Shif.......tell the goons that Grob Julliet Victor Sierra is at........."
Dont repent it now, though
Richie
While flying up deepest darkest Africa a few years ago, was advised "that traffeek was in my left 2 o'clock"!!
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Whilst on descent into Subic Bay NAS (USN Naval Air Station), in the Phillipines a few years ago in a military P3, the female ATC issued us our arrival clearance at machine-gun speed, so fast, in fact, that no-one onboard understood even a part of it!
Our Captain, having been around the world a few times, said in a slow Queenslander type voice,
"Now we've heard how fast you can say it, lets see how s-l-o-w you can say it", and had no further troubles with her.
Cheers
Our Captain, having been around the world a few times, said in a slow Queenslander type voice,
"Now we've heard how fast you can say it, lets see how s-l-o-w you can say it", and had no further troubles with her.
Cheers
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Another reminiscence.
We were ready to start engines on our C130 - I won't say MILITARY C130 this time! - at Travis AFB on the West Coast of the states near Sacramento. It was a Saturday/Sunday morning and very quiet, and we were therefore very surprised when we were told to standby as our clearance was not yet available.
We looked across to the tower in the distance and saw a door open at the base of the tower and someone walk out and climb into a blue USAF pick-up truck. We then watched it weave through the lines of C141s and C5s (all MILITARY
) and stop at the door to our aircraft.
The Loadmaster got out of our aircraft to find out what the problem was. We were a little concerned by this time that we must have busted some regulation or other.
The Loadie then got back on headset and told us that the guy just wanted to know if we had any Aussie beer for sale. Seeing we usually carried more than enough libations with us - just in case of an emergency crashlanding in the desert, of course - we were happy to sell off a few cartons of Fosters and VB.
We then watched the truck head off, through the lines of C141s and C5s, back to the base of the control tower. We saw the door open at the bottom and a few seconds later heard: "Aussie XYZ, your clearance now available!"
We were ready to start engines on our C130 - I won't say MILITARY C130 this time! - at Travis AFB on the West Coast of the states near Sacramento. It was a Saturday/Sunday morning and very quiet, and we were therefore very surprised when we were told to standby as our clearance was not yet available.
We looked across to the tower in the distance and saw a door open at the base of the tower and someone walk out and climb into a blue USAF pick-up truck. We then watched it weave through the lines of C141s and C5s (all MILITARY
) and stop at the door to our aircraft. The Loadmaster got out of our aircraft to find out what the problem was. We were a little concerned by this time that we must have busted some regulation or other.
The Loadie then got back on headset and told us that the guy just wanted to know if we had any Aussie beer for sale. Seeing we usually carried more than enough libations with us - just in case of an emergency crashlanding in the desert, of course - we were happy to sell off a few cartons of Fosters and VB.
We then watched the truck head off, through the lines of C141s and C5s, back to the base of the control tower. We saw the door open at the bottom and a few seconds later heard: "Aussie XYZ, your clearance now available!"
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Overhead on BK TWR frequency a couple of Sundays ago, when an ATC with a slight English accent was rolling out the one-liners thick and fast, including the following little gem. I couldn't help but laugh, he sounded so stern, too
TWR: ABC you got that cherokee sighted yet?
ABC: Uh...negative still looking
TWR: Better get your labrador to have a look for you
TWR: ABC you got that cherokee sighted yet?
ABC: Uh...negative still looking
TWR: Better get your labrador to have a look for you
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some useless info about Hercs...
Glad you guys are confused too...
My understanding is this:
C130 Military
L100 Lockheed civil designation
L382 civil, type specific
-20 has a ~3metre fuselage stretch, -30 has ~5mtrs
eg L100-30 is an L382G which ~= a C130H-30
or L100-20 is an L382E ~= C130H-20
C130's normally don't have a fuse plug although the C130J is only -30 length
Easiest way to tell at a glance is that the civil one won't have the lower cockpit windows.
BTW Southern Air and Air America were sister operations run in parallel by the same... company- SAT mainly flew bananas in South America while AA was flying all kinds of rice in SE Asia. AA was at one time the largest airline in the world. SAT continued operating up until the 90's and their L100s continue flying today, one of which has well over 90,000 airframe hrs... and a hammock in the back where i used to catch some zzz's
edited because i forgot:
whats the difference between Military Vs Civilian..?
... who can spell "plausible deniability"..?
My understanding is this:
C130 Military
L100 Lockheed civil designation
L382 civil, type specific
-20 has a ~3metre fuselage stretch, -30 has ~5mtrs
eg L100-30 is an L382G which ~= a C130H-30
or L100-20 is an L382E ~= C130H-20
C130's normally don't have a fuse plug although the C130J is only -30 length
Easiest way to tell at a glance is that the civil one won't have the lower cockpit windows.
BTW Southern Air and Air America were sister operations run in parallel by the same... company- SAT mainly flew bananas in South America while AA was flying all kinds of rice in SE Asia. AA was at one time the largest airline in the world. SAT continued operating up until the 90's and their L100s continue flying today, one of which has well over 90,000 airframe hrs... and a hammock in the back where i used to catch some zzz's
edited because i forgot:
whats the difference between Military Vs Civilian..?
... who can spell "plausible deniability"..?
Last edited by Herc Jerk; 27th May 2004 at 03:40.
Weekend Warrior,
That would be Tim in the tower, wouldn't it?????
I remember one day years ago when we used to make taxi calls and BK:
ME: Ground, Duchess XXX taxiing Bankstown for Hoxton Park.
TWR: XXX say again aircraft type
ME: XXX is a BE76 Duchess
TWR: XXX, why don't you fly it instead, it'll never fit on the Milperra Bridge.
Atlas
That would be Tim in the tower, wouldn't it?????
I remember one day years ago when we used to make taxi calls and BK:
ME: Ground, Duchess XXX taxiing Bankstown for Hoxton Park.
TWR: XXX say again aircraft type
ME: XXX is a BE76 Duchess
TWR: XXX, why don't you fly it instead, it'll never fit on the Milperra Bridge.
Atlas
