coolest Atc instruction ever
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Hey we must have been downtown at the same time pilotdar!
Saw it today
Actually heard it first , very distinctive sound!
Got a couple of great photos
Makes me homesick a little bit , used to live near reculver where they tested the bouncing bomb !
I think they still wash up occasionally
Saw it today
Actually heard it first , very distinctive sound!
Got a couple of great photos
Makes me homesick a little bit , used to live near reculver where they tested the bouncing bomb !
I think they still wash up occasionally
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I was taxiing down to the end of 20 at Nelson airport down here in NZ,
ATC - XXX Taxi to hold point echo caution gyro copter at charlie (i think)
ME - Holding echo
ATC - XXX are you ready to depart
I take a look down the runway and see the bright orange gyro copter about 100ft off the end of the runway, it was like the bloke was pedalling, and forgetting good RT i replied
ME- XXX ready to go as soon as....err 'that thing' gets out of the way.
ATC - XXX 'That Thing' will be turning starboard shortly cleared for take off 20
The gyro copters radio was barely readable by me so it was probably just as well i didn't hear his next transmission but i did catch the word 'Thing'
ATC - XXX Taxi to hold point echo caution gyro copter at charlie (i think)
ME - Holding echo
ATC - XXX are you ready to depart
I take a look down the runway and see the bright orange gyro copter about 100ft off the end of the runway, it was like the bloke was pedalling, and forgetting good RT i replied
ME- XXX ready to go as soon as....err 'that thing' gets out of the way.
ATC - XXX 'That Thing' will be turning starboard shortly cleared for take off 20
The gyro copters radio was barely readable by me so it was probably just as well i didn't hear his next transmission but i did catch the word 'Thing'
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On Saturday morning, I take off from the unmanned airstrip and pop up at 1000ft in the MATZ fpr radio contact.
"xxx CTR, goodmorning, this is I-xxxx.
Instead of the standard reply I get: Good morning Riccardo, pass your message".
The controller on duty flies his ultralight from the same airstrip and had recognized my voice. First time I've been identified by name and not callsign
"xxx CTR, goodmorning, this is I-xxxx.
Instead of the standard reply I get: Good morning Riccardo, pass your message".
The controller on duty flies his ultralight from the same airstrip and had recognized my voice. First time I've been identified by name and not callsign
Operating a Slingsby T61 (normal operating speed ~ 60kts) out of RAE Bedford Thurleigh in the mid '70s there were also the BAC-111 doing the hush-kit trials I was carrying our atmospheric survey measurements for, and BA aircraft doing practice ILS approaches.
Instructed by ATC 'Golf Mike Bravo, you are number 2 behind the BA747, caution wake turbulence, please expedite departure from the runway, Concorde is next behind you'
Instructed by ATC 'Golf Mike Bravo, you are number 2 behind the BA747, caution wake turbulence, please expedite departure from the runway, Concorde is next behind you'
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My own favourite clearance was a number of years ago, on my way to the Arran Islands on the west coast of Ireland.
I'd been cleared through the Shannon CTA at FL060. Shannon were having some difficulty contacting another aircraft lower down, and asked if I could assist.
After helping out, Shannon told me that if I wanted, they would get me a clearance to cross Galway zone which would have been a bit of a short cut.
That didn't actually suit me on the day, so I told thanked them for the offer, but said that I'd like to stick to my original clearance/route.
Their reply was "No problem. You're cleared to go whichever way you want to go!"
I wish all my clearances were like that
dp
I'd been cleared through the Shannon CTA at FL060. Shannon were having some difficulty contacting another aircraft lower down, and asked if I could assist.
After helping out, Shannon told me that if I wanted, they would get me a clearance to cross Galway zone which would have been a bit of a short cut.
That didn't actually suit me on the day, so I told thanked them for the offer, but said that I'd like to stick to my original clearance/route.
Their reply was "No problem. You're cleared to go whichever way you want to go!"
I wish all my clearances were like that
dp
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Not really an "instruction", but many years ago I was bumbling around Norfolk one fine evening in my flexwing when one of the familiar ATC voices enquired "Victor Golf, is yours a two seater?". "Affirmative, would you like to occupy the back seat?" was my reply.
The following week Robin Scriven squeezed his 6ft 16½ stone frame into my Pegasus Flash and we got airborne from 09 at NWI for a tour round the local area. After that I was often addressed by name rather than call-sign, both by him and his colleagues, probably (I suspect) to the annoyance of many commercial flights. His premature death was a great loss to the local aviation community, but his memory lives on.
The following week Robin Scriven squeezed his 6ft 16½ stone frame into my Pegasus Flash and we got airborne from 09 at NWI for a tour round the local area. After that I was often addressed by name rather than call-sign, both by him and his colleagues, probably (I suspect) to the annoyance of many commercial flights. His premature death was a great loss to the local aviation community, but his memory lives on.
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Back around 1980 flying my Oly 2b glider (50s wood and fabric) out of Enstone I heard on the radio to stay below 2000ft as there was a jet taking off from Upper Heyford whos runway lined up with ours and was only about 4 miles away. With a roar Concord took off and climbed above me. I even managed a photo.
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To the A/G, before taxiing in a club aircraft.
Me: Has anyone logged the DI in this aircraft as INOP?
A/G: Try pulling your knob out.
Me: Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that will solve my problem.
Me: Has anyone logged the DI in this aircraft as INOP?
A/G: Try pulling your knob out.
Me: Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think that will solve my problem.
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GCRSR - reminds me of the first time I flew in Florida - I was told to follow the Turkey - I had no idea what they were talking about and never did spot the bird! Of course I was looking for the wrong sort of bird.
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Coolest ATC - St. Petersburg Florida. I had just flown along the beach, sightseeing with a passenger in a rented 172. Returning to Albert Whitted airfield, ATC asked me to orbit for spacing, an experimental aircraft was ahead of me for Runway 36.
Replied I, in astonishment, looking at the peculiar objects in front "There's two of them!" "That's affirmative, and they're pretty slow" ATC confirmed.
So I did a fairly ample orbit for spacing, and when I was lined up again for 36, they had completely vanished! I looked around and to my astonishment, there were the two experimental aircraft on my right, making an approach to runway 27!
Said I to ATC...."have you changed the runway or something?"
ATC to me "We wondered when you would notice....."
Replied I, in astonishment, looking at the peculiar objects in front "There's two of them!" "That's affirmative, and they're pretty slow" ATC confirmed.
So I did a fairly ample orbit for spacing, and when I was lined up again for 36, they had completely vanished! I looked around and to my astonishment, there were the two experimental aircraft on my right, making an approach to runway 27!
Said I to ATC...."have you changed the runway or something?"
ATC to me "We wondered when you would notice....."
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Traffic is a what???
Four years ago I was flying circuits at Bournemouth in a Cessna 152, with about 55 hrs in my log book at the time.
Imagine my surprise when I received the instruction,
"Orbit at the end of the downwind leg. Traffic is a Vulcan inbound from Hengistbury".
That really wasn't something you would have expected to hear in 2008.
Of course this was the wonderful XH558, now named 'The Spirit of Great Britain'. And I, a trainee PPL, was flying in the same little bit of airspace! A very special moment for me at least.
BTW: I didn't have my camera either!!!
Imagine my surprise when I received the instruction,
"Orbit at the end of the downwind leg. Traffic is a Vulcan inbound from Hengistbury".
That really wasn't something you would have expected to hear in 2008.
Of course this was the wonderful XH558, now named 'The Spirit of Great Britain'. And I, a trainee PPL, was flying in the same little bit of airspace! A very special moment for me at least.
BTW: I didn't have my camera either!!!
In the middle of the night, I once got a 'Land OVER the light twin' from a very tired ATCO at 28L at Heathrow. The 'light twin' had been given clearance to line up while we were on short finals. I have often wondered how it felt to have 50 tonnes of metal thundering over the top.
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Many many years ago (late 80s IIRC) I was taxying for takeoff from Southend for the final leg of my Qualifying Cross Country to Biggin Hill, I heard on the radio “G fire 2 minutes” “What’s with the G FIRE stuff?” I thought “Surely it should be Golf Foxtrot India Romeo Echo?” I had obviously missed the first part of the conversation.... 2 minutes later as I was trundling up the taxiway I heard the distinct sound of a Merlin and a bright red spitfire flew a run-and-break right over my head. I dallied as long as I could over the power checks then headed up to the hold. Just as the Spitfire was on short final I called for take of clearance and was told “Golf Bravo Bravo, line up and hold after the landing spitfire” “After the landing Spitfire” I replied....Probably the only time I will legitimately broadcast those words......
