it's my understanding that turtles live exclusively on airport property in Florida...I've heard the same thing (differently worded) at MLB too...

Classic. Guess ATC wants them to go! home!

Not really ATC, but one of the instructors has put a couple funny messages on our GPS units.

"Insert $.25 to continue recieving RAIM" and I got this one on a practice approach today "Haha, made 'ya look" :)

Just heard this on liveATC.net:
JFKtwr:" 31left, position and hold."
AirXXX: "Are you higgy?"
JFK: "Nah! Higgy's much louder. He's the loudest one up here!"
XXX: "Yeah! Will we notice when he comes up?"
JFK: "You can't overhear him!"
XXX: "Will we miss him?"
JFK: "Maybe..."

They both burst out laghing after this! The dudes are in a real good mood there today! I've heard them joke around all the time...


EDIT: After XXX took off and was told to contact departure, they told JFK to say hi to Higgy...:D

Freakin' funny. LMAO!!!!!! That's the funniest thing I've heard in ages.

Collecting posts? If you continue on like this, you'll have 100 by tonight! You would have to laugh alot, with that big of an a$$...
(In case your post was not ment to be ironical, forget it...)

heres one..... a few years ago I was at DFW and being a big, big airport, it is not uncommon to get a coyote or a dog on rwy. A dog... a coyote... maybe a big hazzard, and maybe just maybe, you could catch one. So, this pilot calls in that a cat is on 18L. After a long pause, the controller said "ah, what do you want me to do about it?" To which I responded "Quick, somebody call the Korean Air catering truck!"

But the funniest story I've heard is... back in the 70's a Brittish Airways pilot was in Frankfurt. The frankfurt controllers are notorious &&%$(#(@ and the speedbird pilot had obviously made a small area with a Taxi instruction. After reading the speedbird pilot the riot act, he said with a sarcastic attitude, speed bird haven't you ever been here before? Without missing a beat he responded "yeah, once... about 30 years ago but I didn't bother to land"

The bombs away message was loud and clear.


The dumbest thing I've ever said.....
at DFW told to taxi forward about 20 ft to make way for an aircraft taxiing behind me. I move forward to where I guess 20 ft was. Obviously not as far as the ramp controller thought 20 ft was. He gave us a hard time for it and since our copilots do the communications, my female first officer stumbled through an apology. the controller came back with yet another remark. So I responded, "give her a break, I've been trying to convince her what 12 inches looks like for 3 days!"

While holding short behind a student pilot at HPN he was cleared onto Runway 16 but was heading 340......looking at the "short" runway when he was cleared for take-off he responded to twr "OH BOY".......Twr then told him to turn around........

So I was just listening to JFK tower:

An American pilot ready to push calls tower instead of ground..

To which the tower controller replies:

"American XXX You've got to call ground before you can talk to me, but if you saw the ground controller you wouldn't want to talk to him anyway"

Flying in the pattern at GFK and landing runways 17R/L

GFK: Sioux XX cleared for the option 35R
Sioux XX: uuh, tower do u mean 17L
GFK: negative, cleared for......disreguard, cleared for option 17L
Sioux XX; roger
GFK: Sorry bout that, I went to the Elmer Fudd of air traffic control......also known as Embry-Riddle
Sioux XX: amen to that