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Heard this on Wednesday night trying to escape ORD on 626 to DCA - think my laughing disturbed the person next to me.
ATC gave instructions to a Mesa pilot with new frequency - Mesa pilot responded by repeating instructions and thanking ATC with a real cheesy Elvis-like "Thank you - thank you very much" (this wasn't the funny part).
Short pause
Unknown pilot: "Giggity"
I like Family Guy, so it was funny to hear that - but the timing following the guy who was trying to be funny was great.
now THAT'S funny and i would have loved to hear it (tho without a drink in my hand or the seatback pocket in front of me would have been the victim of a very large spit-take )
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Last night, somewhere over Brussels on my IAD-FRA flight a pilot asked Maastricht (yeah, I know it's not in Belgium but that's who was handling the flight): "Any reports of where the rides are smooth?" ATC responded: "Rides are smooth on the ground. I don't have reports of smooth rides anywhere else!"
I found it funny...not sure the requesting pilot did, tho..
Long taxi to the runway, somehow our pilot gets lost by going straight at a junction when he should have turned to followed every other plane to the end of the runway. He's changing frequencies trying to get tower or ground control. When he finally goes back to ground, they give him the correct tower freq and say "They have been looking for you for a while". At this point, the pilot turns off ch9.
We then got sent to the penalty box for 20 minutes.
A few minutes later the pilot makes an announcement about how there was a problem with the tower and we would be slotting back into the takeoff order shortly.
Long taxi to the runway, somehow our pilot gets lost by going straight at a junction when he should have turned to followed every other plane to the end of the runway. He's changing frequencies trying to get tower or ground control. When he finally goes back to ground, they give him the correct tower freq and say "They have been looking for you for a while". At this point, the pilot turns off ch9.
We then got sent to the penalty box for 20 minutes.
A few minutes later the pilot makes an announcement about how there was a problem with the tower and we would be slotting back into the takeoff order shortly.
Glad it ended happily for you; that is exactly how runway incursions occur and it could have been a lot nastier. Not surprised the PIC turned of CH 9 after that though.
Enroute controller: Northwest XXX, contact Chicago center on xxx.xx. Her name is Liz. Tell her I said hi.
And, on a foggy night at LAX, with the ground controller having to continually ask planes if certain gates were clear, because she couldn't see into "the alleys":
Ground controller: Why'd they have to build this thing so high? Deadpan pilot: So you can see.
Has anyone ever heard one version of events on Channel 9 explained very differently by the pilot over the PA system? Just once for me about three years ago:
We were on final approach at SFO and I was listening to Channel 9 and the tower came on and said something to the effect of (paraphrasing here), "United xxxx, you are too high for approach, execute go around." at which point we climbed up and out our over the ocean to land on the second attempt. But the interesting part was that when the pilot came on the PA she apologized for the go around and said it was because there was traffic on the runway and we couldn't land...
A first for me for sure! I winked at her on the way out as she was saying goodbye to the passengers...
Has anyone ever heard one version of events on Channel 9 explained very differently by the pilot over the PA system? Just once for me about three years ago:
We were on final approach at SFO and I was listening to Channel 9 and the tower came on and said something to the effect of (paraphrasing here), "United xxxx, you are too high for approach, execute go around." at which point we climbed up and out our over the ocean to land on the second attempt. But the interesting part was that when the pilot came on the PA she apologized for the go around and said it was because there was traffic on the runway and we couldn't land...
A first for me for sure! I winked at her on the way out as she was saying goodbye to the passengers...
Actually that could very well have happened. When we land in SFO, we are spaced very closely together. When you follow another aircraft, you fly above their wake turbulence and flight path. If you are put in behind someone and have to try and find them while flying high, you may be put into a position that you can't land. Secondly, rarely does a tower send a plane around for being too high since they don't fly our jet, but they do for runway separation. We also have stabilized approach criteria at United and they could have just been too high and fast and went around, but we make that call well before a tower would, so I'm kinda suspect on that call.
Who knows, but go arounds seem to happen at SFO more than any other airport I fly to.
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I had a funny one last year. The pilot thought he was on the cabin PA. He did the usual 2-3 minute speech about gate, arrival time, weather at the destination, etc. Of course, he wasn't on the cabin PA, he was on ATC. Immediately after he finished, all the other pilots on the frequency chimed in in rapid-fire sequence:
"I hope I make my connection."
"What's the movie?"
"I've never done that."
"I'll have the chicken"
etc.
etc.
etc.
I had a funny one last year. The pilot thought he was on the cabin PA. He did the usual 2-3 minute speech about gate, arrival time, weather at the destination, etc. Of course, he wasn't on the cabin PA, he was on ATC. Immediately after he finished, all the other pilots on the frequency chimed in in rapid-fire sequence:
"I hope I make my connection."
"What's the movie?"
"I've never done that."
"I'll have the chicken"
etc.
etc.
etc.
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I had a funny one last year. The pilot thought he was on the cabin PA. He did the usual 2-3 minute speech about gate, arrival time, weather at the destination, etc. Of course, he wasn't on the cabin PA, he was on ATC. Immediately after he finished, all the other pilots on the frequency chimed in in rapid-fire sequence:
"I hope I make my connection."
"What's the movie?"
"I've never done that."
"I'll have the chicken"
etc.
etc.
etc.
Wow. He's probably glad he wasn't at ORD when he did that!
I wonder how often that happens. And ATC can't grind to a halt every time it does, but then again, communicating to everyone to change to a different/backup frequency might not work, either--planes nearer to the offending aircraft likely wouldn't hear a controller's instruction to change frequencies over the din, and too much else could go wrong. I suppose they just grin and bear it (except at ORD, where I'm sure they'd stick the plane in a penalty box for about six hours...).
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During the Chicago - Indy superbowl weekend (Saturday, you wouldn't find me anywhere but my living room on Sunday), a Chicago controller gave a flight to IND clearance to "fly direct Zulab". Pilot got a chuckle out of it.
(I think three years ago, when "da bears" were in the super bowl) Channel 9 was loaded with super bowl updates on a flight out of ORD...it was interesting to hear how some ATCs would jab at pilots with scores and have fun with it whereas others would respond to score update requests with anger and not give updates...that was the last time I flew United (just fyi haha)...now I am excited for an upcoming trip on UA for a change of scenery for fun! Hopefully will never fly during the Superbowl again (missed it )!
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It wasn't funny but it was overheard on Ch 9.
Arriving from a long day of flying (LHR-IAD-DEN) on Tuesday night, UA933 is intercepting ILS 16R @ DEN when I heard Great Lakes 763 state "we're turning back to the airport, we have smoke in the cockpit we are declaring an emergency!" A few moments later asked to repeat themselves, but now in a more hurried tone they repeat. They ask that their company be called. Then tower asks for "souls on board and fuel load" in a muffled tone (O2 masks in use from what I could tell) they reply "12 and 2500 lbs" ATC repeats back. After that it's quiet for a long while. We are ahead of them and land with all emergency equipment at the ready on the same runway as the one we've arrived on, just as we touch down they reported smoke cleared but still declaring the emergency.
Kinda neat listening to Channel 9 landing in SFO today around 2:40pm. "Blue Angels 9 waiting for take off. Can you squeeze us in when you get a chance?" Pretty neat. Their show was cancelled today because there was too much fog. I did not realize they took off & landed from SFO. Thought they woudl be at a military base or an aircraft carrier.
Kinda neat listening to Channel 9 landing in SFO today around 2:40pm. "Blue Angels 9 waiting for take off. Can you squeeze us in when you get a chance?" Pretty neat. Their show was cancelled today because there was too much fog. I did not realize they took off & landed from SFO. Thought they woudl be at a military base or an aircraft carrier.
Sounds interesting, but are you sure it was "Blue Angels 9"? AFAIK the performance jets are tail numbers 1 thru 6, 7 is the announcer/PR jet, and 8 is the admin person. They don't have a 9 (unless possibly they were using it for "Fat Albert", the C-130?)
Generally they take off/land from the military bases when they are performing there, but if the air show base doesn't have a runway long enough or in the case of SFO fleet week, they use what they can. No way you're going to do a 6-jet formation take-off from a carrier.
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Somewhere over New Mexico, a pilot was having trouble hearing a controller...
Controller: Is this better? I changed transmitters. Pilot: Much better. Controller: It's these 1956 radios the FAA gives us. Pilot: Must be hard finding tubes for those things. Controller: We make 'em ourselves. That's what we do on our breaks.
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and i would have loved to hear it (tho without a drink in my hand or the seatback pocket in front of me would have been the victim of a very large spit-take 
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