Whats the funniest thing you have ever heard over the radio??
10-02-2006, 06:58 AM
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I was flying from RIC to ORD in an EMB 145. Upon landing a passenger said he was going to turn us into the FAA. He said he had an altimeter watch and according to it we never got above 8,000 feet. He said we definitely busted the 250 knot rule for flight below 10,000 feet because we got to ORD way too quick. I introduced him to our FAA jumpseater giving us a line check.....
10-02-2006, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by ATTCS
I was flying from RIC to ORD in an EMB 145. Upon landing a passenger said he was going to turn us into the FAA. He said he had an altimeter watch and according to it we never got above 8,000 feet. He said we definitely busted the 250 knot rule for flight below 10,000 feet because we got to ORD way too quick. I introduced him to our FAA jumpseater giving us a line check.....
10-02-2006, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by ATTCS
I was flying from RIC to ORD in an EMB 145. Upon landing a passenger said he was going to turn us into the FAA. He said he had an altimeter watch and according to it we never got above 8,000 feet. He said we definitely busted the 250 knot rule for flight below 10,000 feet because we got to ORD way too quick. I introduced him to our FAA jumpseater giving us a line check.....
10-02-2006, 03:58 PM
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Since this thread has crept over to "funniest thing heard from a passenger", here's another one. One night, a flight attendant came into the cockpit with a message: "This little old lady in back says to tell the Captain he needs to raise the cabin pressure." I told her to go back and reassure the lady that we had double-checked and everything was operating quite normally. When I was saying goodbye to the deplaning passengers, here came the little old lady with an angry scowl. She snapped: "TWA always raises the cabin pressure for me!" I mentally saluted my TWA colleagues, who had probably sent back the much better message: "Thank you ma'am--we'll raise it immediately!" 
10-02-2006, 05:07 PM
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Altimeter watch.... lol!!! 
Sorry, those things, and the people who wear them really make me wonder about the current status of the gene pool.
... anyway, I'm off to run some numbers on my E6B watch!
Sorry, those things, and the people who wear them really make me wonder about the current status of the gene pool.
... anyway, I'm off to run some numbers on my E6B watch!
10-02-2006, 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by freezingflyboy
Ever find out what they wanted to arrest the guy for?
10-02-2006, 09:17 PM
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Good Joke
It's late at night, early morning 2am. I'm flying a Piper Aztec with a student from Chatanooga TN to Morganton, NC. We are talking to Atlanta Center and hadn't heard from them in a while. I asked if they were asleep. She came on and said that we were the only traffic up at that time and all the Notre Dame folks had gone home. Notre Dame football was down to playing GA Tech that night. I asked who had one and she said ND. When asked who she wanted to win she said she didn't care so being from ND I have a shout out to them. She handed me off to the next guy who was just as quiet. I want to get a good one out about ND beating GT. To warm up the controller I asked if he knew any good jokes. He came back with this:
"Sorry guys, the FAA passed a new law that prohibits us from doing stuff like that. It just went into effect yesterday and I could lose my job over it. sorry."
Before I could say anything my student jumps on the radio and says:
"That's a good one!"
"Sorry guys, the FAA passed a new law that prohibits us from doing stuff like that. It just went into effect yesterday and I could lose my job over it. sorry."
Before I could say anything my student jumps on the radio and says:
"That's a good one!"
10-03-2006, 05:54 AM
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On the clever passenger comments:
Flew into Burbank the other day. The big fires nw of the city were still raging, and we flew through a portion of the smoke plume that had been blown onto the arrival. The cabin got a slight whiff of wood smoke for a few seconds, and some light chop. After we land and park at the gate, the airplane shifted onto one of the main struts a little bit (settles). While one lady was getting off, she accuses us of flying so close to the flames of the wildfire that we melted the tires, hence the settling on the ground! With an imagination like that, I assume she was in town to write screenplays...
What always gets me is the fact that the people think we are doing this crazy sh&t, BUT THEY STILL GO FLYING ANYWAY!
Flew into Burbank the other day. The big fires nw of the city were still raging, and we flew through a portion of the smoke plume that had been blown onto the arrival. The cabin got a slight whiff of wood smoke for a few seconds, and some light chop. After we land and park at the gate, the airplane shifted onto one of the main struts a little bit (settles). While one lady was getting off, she accuses us of flying so close to the flames of the wildfire that we melted the tires, hence the settling on the ground! With an imagination like that, I assume she was in town to write screenplays...
What always gets me is the fact that the people think we are doing this crazy sh&t, BUT THEY STILL GO FLYING ANYWAY!
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