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On the Air Classic—November 2024

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Key Takeaways:

  • The article presents a collection of humorous real-life anecdotes from aviation, highlighting unexpected and witty exchanges between pilots and air traffic control.
  • These stories feature various forms of lighthearted communication, such as a controller mimicking bird calls, a pilot jokingly identifying a train as air traffic, and controllers making humorous observations.
  • Overall, the anecdotes emphasize the human element and friendly banter that can occur even within the serious and regulated environment of flight communication.
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I was a new controller and just assigned to my first duty station, Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona. I had a pretty good working relationship with my crew mate. It was slow and we had the radios on the speaker so we could use handsets instead of wearing headsets.

Out of nowhere we got a report of birds on the north side of the field flying south. So as is required of us, my crew mate starts making a cautionary statement for birds INVOF the airport. As he is doing this I screamed as loud as I could, “CAW CAW CAW.”

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