The funniest things heard while controlling/flying

Kenneth Bambach · « **Reply #15 on:** August 10, 2013, 10:31:36 PM »

Had the best one in quite a while this eve. Aircraft is squawking standby at the h/s, pilot says he's ready for t/o. Told to squawk mode c. A preganant pause, followed again by that he is ready for t/o howver still squawking standby. Told to squawk mode c again. This scenario plays out two more times, at which point pilot says he is unable to squawk mode c in that his transponder will only allow numbers, and no letters, particularly the letter c. Should have seen this one coming when he filed all the way to LAX in a 74 at FL220. At least he got the NEODD/SWEVEN right

Mark Hubbert · « **Reply #16 on:** August 15, 2013, 01:56:13 PM »

The other evening I was controlling MEM_CTR and something occured that has never happened to me. A pilot apparently did not intend for me to hear his cabin announcements. The announcements began after I provided taxi instructions to 36L. The announcements were actually pretty good. I could not resist requesting a bourbon and coke at seat 14A; then there was dead silence.

Bradford Lee · « **Reply #17 on:** August 15, 2013, 02:39:02 PM »

Quote from: Mark Hubbert

The other evening I was controlling MEM_CTR and something occured that has never happened to me. A pilot apparently did not intend for me to hear his cabin announcements. The announcements began after I provided taxi instructions to 36L. The announcements were actually pretty good. I could not resist requesting a bourbon and coke at seat 14A; then there was dead silence.

That's actually occurred real-world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuUgerUGYqA

Don Desfosse · « **Reply #18 on:** August 15, 2013, 08:10:33 PM »

Oh, at least several times.....

Welcome to New York!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOJRYPAFgkQ

Fred Michaels · « **Reply #19 on:** August 17, 2013, 11:45:59 AM »

Quote from: Mark Hubbert

The other evening I was controlling MEM_CTR and something occured that has never happened to me. A pilot apparently did not intend for me to hear his cabin announcements. The announcements began after I provided taxi instructions to 36L. The announcements were actually pretty good. I could not resist requesting a bourbon and coke at seat 14A; then there was dead silence.

Actually had this happen a few weeks ago. Once the pilot was completed, simply said on frequency "EGFXXX, we'd like to know if you are a cashless carrier. We'd like to order." As the person was flying north, coordinated with Jacksonville Center and after the hand off, Jacksonville inquired "Yes, EGFXXXX, do you carry Coke or Pepsi products?" Pilot took it in stride the entire way and everyone had a great laugh.

Don Desfosse · « **Reply #20 on:** September 30, 2013, 11:23:31 PM »

Best response award goes to Cardin Pelletier from ZME:

[04:10:29] [ATC] VATUSA1: Just because the federal government just shut down, don't worry, you are all essential personnel! Please continue to log on as much as possible!
[04:16:28] [ATC] VATUSA1: Good night, USA!
[04:16:49] [ATC] MEM_APP: Goodnight Captain America

Charan Kumar · « **Reply #21 on:** September 30, 2013, 11:53:30 PM »

XXX297: XXX297 has a 13mo psngr on board who's getting a bit fussy. Captain may need to step away on short notice for a minute or two at one point.
Me: np, i don't suppose calling the Flight Attendant would end well for you.
XXX297: Negative, that would involve crash landing and sleeping in the cargo bay.

Bradford Lee · « **Reply #22 on:** October 05, 2013, 03:11:06 AM »

Quote from: Charan Kumar

XXX297: XXX297 has a 13mo psngr on board who's getting a bit fussy. Captain may need to step away on short notice for a minute or two at one point.
Me: np, i don't suppose calling the Flight Attendant would end well for you.
XXX297: Negative, that would involve crash landing and sleeping in the cargo bay.

I've had a curious 13mo visitor in the tower cab and radar room before. And a fussy one. Keep having to tell her not to unplug the controller's mic. That and carefully advise the local sup that I have traffic, please control all visitors.

Don Desfosse · « **Reply #23 on:** October 11, 2013, 08:35:30 AM »

XXX_CTR: CAYXXX, descend and maintain 6000.
CAYXXX: Down to 6000, yeah, we're high.
XXX_CTR: That's OK, you're high and I'm drunk, we'll find a way to make it work.

The funnier thing is about 10 seconds later, my boss, who was flying through my airspace, PM'd me and asked if I was really drunk.... (For the record, I wasn't!)

Davor Kusec · « **Reply #24 on:** October 12, 2013, 12:08:27 PM »

Classic Don! haha Nice

Evan Waldron · « **Reply #25 on:** October 12, 2013, 04:43:12 PM »

Was flying into KDFW and saw this in the FTW_CTR text.

DALXXXX: Hello
CTR: DALXXXX, hi.

Evan Waldron · « **Reply #26 on:** October 12, 2013, 08:59:11 PM »

Also saw this coming to KORD on UNICOM.

UALXXXX: ORD tfc proceeding direct ADELL...looks like we're going to be rolling in the deep and setting fire to the rain over Chicago.

Christos Kokkinomagoulos · « **Reply #27 on:** October 17, 2013, 09:35:10 PM »

[!--quoteo--][div class=\\\'quotetop\\\']QUOTE [/div][div class=\\\'quotemain\\\'][!--quotec--]Was flying into KDFW and saw this in the FTW_CTR text.

DALXXXX: Hello
CTR: DALXXXX, hi.[/quote]

I was the controller lol...

I've no idea why but I've seen a lot of pilots just say hi over the freq or PM and I reply back.
These are the kind of pilots though that haven't studied the PRC or anything similar before connecting to VATSIM and they end up taking off or doing something else crazy without saying anything else to me...

It's like if I respond in any way (or in this case just say hello) that automatically grants them permission to do anything they want .

Don Desfosse · « **Reply #28 on:** October 18, 2013, 07:11:04 AM »

Ah the classic Class Charlie end-around -- you say hi using their callsign and then all heck breaks loose! Used to test my students' knowledge on Class C communication requirements that way when doing Class C Approach training

(Disclaimer: No, I don't really think that's what the pilot was up to... )

Kenneth Bambach · « **Reply #29 on:** October 18, 2013, 04:07:28 PM »

In South Florida it usually starts out "Hola", before all heck breaks loose