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Old 06-05-2006, 08:45 PM
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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?"
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Old 06-05-2006, 08:49 PM
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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?"
Uh......I don't get it.
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Old 06-06-2006, 08:04 AM
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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.
That's probably happened to everybody. Fortunately it's harder to accidently transmit to the PAX on most airliners...on the CRJ you have to move three seperate switches. 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...
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Old 06-06-2006, 10:24 AM
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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>
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Old 06-06-2006, 10:40 AM
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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?

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Old 06-06-2006, 06:01 PM
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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?

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Only when both of us are awake or we're not working on the sudoku/crossword puzzle...
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Old 06-06-2006, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyerJosh
Only when both of us are awake or we're not working on the sudoku/crossword puzzle...
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.
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Old 06-07-2006, 09:13 AM
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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.
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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Old 06-07-2006, 10:45 AM
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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?
Haha no I think its in that short pause (Im talking seconds) in your convesation about how drunk you were last weekend so the other guy can say 80 knots v1 rotate. Then back to how good that long island was.
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Old 06-08-2006, 08:58 AM
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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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