Striker, have you ever flown a multi-engine plane before?
Posted by J.A.S.O.N. on 04 Feb 2008 at 01:27 pm | Tagged as: Babble, Humor, Internet
funny air traffic controllers quotes and amusing aviation conversations
There’s a lot of them on the site, but these two have to be my favorites:
A huge C-5 cargo plane was sitting near where a small plane was waiting to take off. The private pilot got a little nervous because the military plane was closer than normal, and asked the tower to find out the intentions of the C-5. Before the tower could reply, a voice came over the radio as the C-5’s nose cargo doors opened, saying, “I’m going to eat you.”
Allegedly, a Pan Am 727 flight waiting for start clearance in Munich overheard the following:
Lufthansa (in German): “Ground, what is our start clearance time?”
Ground (in English): “If you want an answer you must speak in English.”
Lufthansa (in English): “I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?”
Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): “Because you lost the bloody war.”
Another good story I read once:
A British Airways plane, Speedbird-209, had landed in Frankfurt. The Frankfurt tower instructed them to proceed to a particular gate. Speedbird-209 was stopped off to the side of the runway while they looked up how to get to that gate.
Tower: “Speedbird-209, why are you not moving?”
SB-209: “One moment, tower, I’m looking up the directions to that gate.”
Tower: (snippily) “Speedbird-209, have you never been to Frankfurt before?”
SB-209: “Yes. Once. In 1943. But I didn’t stop.”
Peals of laughter could be heard on the radio traffic for a few minutes after that.
*taps blog* Is this thing on?