themotleyfool

Dullas ground: follow the virgin heavy to runway 30
citation***: rodger we will follow the heavy virgin

SharkyBN584

On the ground in JFK:

GND: JetBlue, I got good news and bad news, which do ya want first?
B6: Uh...lets go with, whatever you think...
GND: Your EDCT time is 1538 (over an hour away) due to traffic saturation into Boston.
B6: So what's the good news?
GND: I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico.
B6: Haha, ok well where do you want us.
GND: JetBlue, well we can put you in the runup pad so you can watch all the planes and boats go by.
B6: We'll take the runup pad if you promise not to switch runways on us.
GND: Promise, huh? Promise is such a strong word. <Pause> Nah, we're not changing off the 4's, taxi into the pad and shut 'em down.

Naturally when I taxiied out later everyone was blasting off of 31L at KK and B6 was all by himself way down at the end of 4L without a friend in the world. The whole exchange was pretty amusing though.

biz jet

Early AM....

BlackBird71(alt classified): Houston Ctr we'd like to request FL600

Houston Ctr: If you can get up there, you can have it!

BlackBird71: Ok, we're out of eight for six.

bgmann

The other day at ORD. My captain and I were holding short of Rwy28 at M7. The taxiways were like parking lots. Aircraft were on M back to F, aircraft on D to B, and 3 aircraft on S holding short 28. The controller was quite a bit flustered. Pilots were frustrated and things just werent moving. "Some" aircraft were departing 22L. Some pilots were asking for their sequence and getting yelled at to stop asking for sequence. Pilots were getting frustrated.

My captain and I were holding short of 28 at M7 number 1 for about 15-18 minutes. I was thinking to myself how can I trigger the tower controller to get things rolling and not get yelled at for requesting when were next. I think he was in a mindlock.

I said "Captain I have an idea"
CA "Oh...whats that?"
ME "Tower <ID>205....we are approaching minimum fuel"
ATC "Okay 205.......uhhhhh....whats your location?"
ME "<ID>205 is number 1 holding short runway 28 at Mike7"
ATC "Okay......<ID>205 uhh...let me find your paper work.

Captain laughs.
CA "find our paperwork? Oh gosh"
2 minutes pass
ATC "Okay <ID>205 cleared for take off Runway 28. Winds are...<yatta yatta>"

American 305: "thanks 205..nice work"
ATC "American 305 taxi into position and hold 28"
ATC "Sun Country you are number 2.....Alaska XXX you are number 3....American XXX your are number 4......iberia XXX your are 5"

I think it got the clot out of his head, got things moving. It was interesting.

My captain said "I have never heard anyone declare 'minimum fuel' while on the ground"

It was true we were approaching our "min takeoff fuel" because we started our 2nd engine as we were number 1 holding 28. We idled both engines because we logically though we were next. What we didnt know was that we would sit there for additional 15 minutes after waiting in taxi line for 40 minutes.

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bgmann - like your avatar - West Virginia - 1 million people and 15 last names...

BURflyer

And then you woke up still in line.

Iannelli

I was doing an IFR flight with a buddy of mine in FLA to tampa. Our take off clearance was to fly runway heading and to maintain one thousand five hundred. Tower told us to contact Approach. My buddy checked in saying: "Approach 880FT with you, runway heading, mantaining one thousand five SH*T!!" ( we were above 1500ft more like 2000ft). Control replied back with laughing in the background. It was great....

SharkyBN584

And they're going to let you fly a jet.

Iannelli

Sharky.......... your still in the business?....

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Sry, to hard too resist... (sic)