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"At the third stroke the time will be 3:30 PM pip...pip...pip... At the third stroke the time will be........."
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"We're supposed to be filming something called Star Wars, for heaven's sake. The set is all wrong. That console looks just like it's Northolt 1960 instead of being in space.
"And that bloke in the foreground - can't you make him look more like an extra-terrestrial? Give him some funny shaped ears, and eyebrows that go the wrong way, for example. Tell wardrobe to get him out of that uniform and dress him like he's from - well anywhere but here and now.
"Now, what can we do about the others? That Judi woman? I can't see this film is ever going to catch on."
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"And that bloke in the foreground - can't you make him look more like an extra-terrestrial? Give him some funny shaped ears, and eyebrows that go the wrong way, for example. Tell wardrobe to get him out of that uniform and dress him like he's from - well anywhere but here and now.
"Now, what can we do about the others? That Judi woman? I can't see this film is ever going to catch on."
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“Hello, Broadsword, this really IS Danny Boy.”
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Lifted from: Ground & Other Ops Forum > ATC Issues:
"A place where pilots may enter the 'lions den' that is Air Traffic Control in complete safety and find out the answers to all those obscure topics which you always wanted to know the answer to but were afraid to ask".
"A place where pilots may enter the 'lions den' that is Air Traffic Control in complete safety and find out the answers to all those obscure topics which you always wanted to know the answer to but were afraid to ask".
- "Sir, tower have just launched one up the PAR, what do I do?"
- "keep talking and when you see it on screen call traffic out the opposite side, they'll not see it as they look the wrong way and we'll be fine."
- "keep talking and when you see it on screen call traffic out the opposite side, they'll not see it as they look the wrong way and we'll be fine."