It's only about 70 NM between FL Tech and Riddle in Daytona Beach, so needless to say there's a little rivalry. Coming into MLB from the north one day I'm waiting for a Riddle guy to finish his rather lengthy request for a full stop-taxi back departure to the north. I (finally) get to talk to tower and receive this "FIT 01 enter left base over the interstate for 9L, you're following a Cessna on a 3 mile base - report the enemy in sight" "Roger tower, we have the enemy and are ready to engage". I've never seen a Cessna get outta airspace so quickly in my life...

Back when PDT used to fly the Shorts, it was notorious for climbing very badly, especially heavy.

One day after take off ATC asked if they could increase their rate of climb. The captain responded, "Negative, its hard to climb with a big load in your Shorts..."

I was with one of my primary students, he was pretty good on the radio but pretty thick for the most part. Anyhow there is a Notam on the Atis about an unmanned rocket launch 7 miles south on the 220 radial of the VOR.

In his infinite wisdom my student makes his initial call on the ground. Lanc., ground this 41980 west ramp, information ROCKET LAUNCH. They didn't skip a beat and cleared us to the active runway but you could hear the tower cab erupt in laughter.

The other day I was flying a straight in to White Plains with a CommutAir Beech 1900 sequenced behind us. The spacing must have been tight because the tower asked the the Beech to keep his pattern "slow and square". With out missing a beat I jumped on the radio and said "Well it is a Beech!" Tower thought it was funny.

SharkyBN,

You go to FIT? What year are you in? - I used to go there...

Lax

PvtJet holding short for T/O: "Tower, I can't remember but are we allowed to take off from those chevrons over there?"

Tower: "Do what you want."

My Colleague in an aircraft behind mine on final: "I wouldn't want to be in YOUR plane."

LaxRox -
Graduated 2004 workin' as one of their ACI's while I sit in the pool at CHQ. I'd PM you but according to APC I'm not that cool yet.

SharkyBN584,

Thats cool dude (dudet?) I left there in 2004 (winter semester) and moved back home and finished my degree. Hit me up on AIM if you have it - CRJpilot4ASA - if you have time...maybe we know eachother!?

Lax

Transmitted over the tower freq: "Ah ladies and gentleman from the flight deck. I'd like to welcome you onboard flight 1234 to CMH. The weather in CMH is light winds, clear skies and a tempature of 75 degrees. It is a short flight and we are expecting some bumps along the way, so we will keep the seatbelt sign on through-out the flight. Thank you for choosing XXX Airlines for your travel needs today. It looks like we will be number one for takeoff, Beth be seated for departure."
And at that point I realized my goof. The tower complemented me on a nice little speech however.

I am not sure what is more embarassing long term... Making a PA to ATC or Climbing to 350 with the PAX...

ATC might rag on you for a few minutes, but the FA could let you have it for the rest of the trip!! :)