Thread: Whats the funniest thing you have ever heard over the radio??
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Old 11-20-2007 | 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Drums4life
When I was working at KTOL a couple years a ago a girl was on her first solo cross country flight. I was inside our lobby at the time and had our radio tuned to tower frequency. The tower said to her, "cessna 1234 cleared for takeoff runway 25 turn heading 270 climb and maintain 3500" so hearing the words turn heading 270 the girl proceeded to turn to that heading on the runway, the baffled controller replied, "no no no, cessna 1234 takeoff first and then turn to a heading of 270!" I felt bad for this girl who obviously wasnt ready to solo yet but couldn't help but laugh at the situation.
First time I heard a clearance like that it confused me a bit too. The controller here at CMI said "Archer 1234UI turn right heading 090 maintain 3000 cleared take off runway 32r"... i always thought it would make more sense to put the take off clearance FIRST but oh wells.
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