Originally Posted by
Timbo
I miss the ATL Twr controller named Buzz, who always handed you off with a, "Have a GREAT day Gentlemen!" He was fun to work with. I heard the Delta pilots presented him with a retirement photo when he left.
Buzz, was quite a guy. All the pilots loved him. However, I had an ATL ATC guy jumpseating back in the day. He said that you guys love him, but sit next to him for a shift and hearing have a great day gentlemen, five hundred times a day, one would want to go postal.
Whatever happened to "grumpy" in ATL? All the controllers said he was nothing like he sounded on the radio.