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Was on my way home---Stinson Field in San Antonio---from the north, VFR, with flight following. ATC called traffic at my 12 to 1 o'clock, 5 miles, maneuvering at 1,000', just south of the Tower of Americas, also headed for Stinson, an airship. It was a clear afternoon and visibility was great, so the airship was an easy spot. With Stinson and my traffic in sight, they cleared me down to 2,500'.
Just as I'm starting my descent, a Cessna---also headed for Stinson, but from the west and much closer to Stinson AND the airship---makes the following call: "Approach, Cessna 1234A... I've got Stinson now, but I still don't see the airship." Approach, without missing a beat, says to ME: "N8702T, would you like to turn back north and land International instead?" |
Originally Posted by poppa2trolls
Was on my way home---Stinson Field in San Antonio---from the north, VFR, with flight following. ATC called traffic at my 12 to 1 o'clock, 5 miles, maneuvering at 1,000', just south of the Tower of Americas, also headed for Stinson, an airship. It was a clear afternoon and visibility was great, so the airship was an easy spot. With Stinson and my traffic in sight, they cleared me down to 2,500'.
Just as I'm starting my descent, a Cessna---also headed for Stinson, but from the west and much closer to Stinson AND the airship---makes the following call: "Approach, Cessna 1234A... I've got Stinson now, but I still don't see the airship." Approach, without missing a beat, says to ME: "N8702T, would you like to turn back north and land International instead?" |
Originally Posted by clearedtoland
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. |
Airships are huge. If she couldn't spot it, I suspect the controller figured---correctly---I wouldn't want to be anywhere near her until she was... oh nevermind...
BTW, are you by any chance blonde? <kidding> |
I think it's designed that way to make it hard to unintentionally include that PAX in your cockpit conversation about sex, booze, and FA's on the last layover...
Pilots really talk about that stuff in the cockpit? -LAFF |
Originally Posted by LAfrequentflyer
I think it's designed that way to make it hard to unintentionally include that PAX in your cockpit conversation about sex, booze, and FA's on the last layover...
Pilots really talk about that stuff in the cockpit? -LAFF |
Originally Posted by FlyerJosh
Only when both of us are awake or we're not working on the sudoku/crossword puzzle...
Hmm I get the other thing now. And no Im not blonde or a chick. I guess I did walk into that tho. |
Originally Posted by Punkpilot48
And its usually durring sterile too.
Hmm I get the other thing now. And no Im not blonde or a chick. I guess I did walk into that tho. |
Originally Posted by FlyerJosh
Sterile cockpit... that's when the guy your flying with is a neat freak and wipes everything down with an alcohol swab, right?
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Going to Vegas on Ted.
Captain: "Any chance direct fuzzy?" ATC: "Negative, the MOA is hot, only participating target aircraft allowed." Captain: "Well, what do we have to do to participate." ATC: "Uh..No, negative, that was just a joke sir." Captain: "I was hoping you would let us dogfight some of those F-16's" |
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