We had the same thing happen to us. The tower controller demanded an apology from our PPC, which he refused to give, for starting engines without permission. We ended up having our CO call the tower LNO to get the standoff broken.
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funny things you've heard on the radio
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Shooting a PAR into Andalusia:
Controller: "How will this approach terminate?"
Me: "With me eating some ribs!"
Controller: "How will this approach terminate?"
Me: "With me eating some ribs!"
I always enjoyed the space shuttle approach to the initial from 16k abeam the field. wizky beajy direct.....field in sight.......field still in sight.....okay we are on top of the field......still in sight but so is el centro....
.ok leaving 16 thousand for 2100.....
+1 for ANYthing Adam Carolla (there's that capitalization again...). Smartest dumb guy I've ever heard. Grew up on Loveline with him and Dr. Drew over probably 7 years in LA, but his podcast is quite good as well, especially WITH cursing.
Anyone who flew the old Butterfly gunnery pattern in training knows if your course was slightly convergent as you ran by the banner/tractor that the tractor would end up flying through your jetwash, known as "thumping the tractor." Over heard one day when the XO of VT-23 was pulling the banner:
Tractor: 3, you thump the tractor again and you're going home.
-3: WTF (not abbreviated) is that ---hole talkin' about. I didn't thump him!
Loooooooong silent pause
Tractor: 3, just go home.
Tractor: 3, you thump the tractor again and you're going home.
-3: WTF (not abbreviated) is that ---hole talkin' about. I didn't thump him!
Loooooooong silent pause
Tractor: 3, just go home.
They only gave that to aircraft and pilots they knew could "hack it". Consider yourself lucky.I always enjoyed the space shuttle approach to the initial from 16k abeam the field. wizky beajy direct.....field in sight.......field still in sight.....okay we are on top of the field......still in sight but so is el centro....
.ok leaving 16 thousand for 2100.....
Future UAS "pilots" will probably START their approach from out El Centro way...
I told this a few years ago.. But tacan was not working on the Enterprise. "99, Fathers down on mother..."
We recently had a form solo that had the following exchange with North Whiting Tower:
Solo: North Tower, request south field penetration (while he's lined up for runway 5, flying away from South Whiting)
Tower: South field penetration approved....(with a long pause to try and figure out why the form flight would need to fly over south field)
Solo: Tower, uh, never mind, thanks for the penetration...
Tower: (callsign) you're welcome (to the sound of uproarious laughter in the background in the tower)
Solo: North Tower, request south field penetration (while he's lined up for runway 5, flying away from South Whiting)
Tower: South field penetration approved....(with a long pause to try and figure out why the form flight would need to fly over south field)
Solo: Tower, uh, never mind, thanks for the penetration...
Tower: (callsign) you're welcome (to the sound of uproarious laughter in the background in the tower)
Used to get to say this every now and then while flying off single-spot ships. Those don't always do a great job maintaining their gear. Not only that, but usually (luckily??) it's just aviators and one or two odd folks from the ship's crew even paying attention to the land/launch freq.
Additional related phrases and misused brevity words may have included, "Interrogative/clarify: is Father sour on Mother? Is Father bent over Mother??? Do you require assistance?" Everything is funnier way out in the middle of the ocean.
Used to get to say this every now and then while flying off single-spot ships. Those don't always do a great job maintaining their gear. Not only that, but usually (luckily??) it's just aviators and one or two odd folks from the ship's crew even paying attention to the land/launch freq.
Additional related phrases and misused brevity words may have included, "Interrogative/clarify: is Father sour on Mother? Is Father bent over Mother??? Do you require assistance?" Everything is funnier way out in the middle of the ocean.
My favorite funny radio story, reminded by the JOPA facebook Memes - flying with the XO, at about 2 am in the NAG making sure the oil plats don't float away. I would regularly tune up bridge to bridge and maritime guard every so often just to hear who was talking to who out there, especially if we weren't talking to anyone. XO comes back up and throws his headset on just as the infamous Filipino monkey starts screaming on BTB.
"ITS DEEEE FILIPINO MONKEY! WHERE IS MY BANANA! AAAHHH AHHH EEE OOO OOO! MY BANANA IS IN YOUR MOTHER'S ASSSSS!
He looks at me, and I'm thinking ruh roh...this can't go well.
All he says is "that fucking monkey has been out here since I was a rescue swimmer on my first deployment in 1992...i hate that goddamn monkey."
MasterBates
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The Filipino Monkey has a cousin in the Baltic. The Malaysian Monkey.
I'd have to have BTB up for ROV operations, and I'd hear him about 2-3 times a night sitting off Bornholm.
I'd have to have BTB up for ROV operations, and I'd hear him about 2-3 times a night sitting off Bornholm.
OK, this one was on me. TINS: I was a T-2 SNA at NAS Meridian just completing FAM Stage. Although I had completed Instrument Ground School, I had never flown an instrument hop ever. But my zero experience did not deter my Instructor who wanted to go on an XC to New York City with three other instructors and students for a long and wild weekend. I think the flight brief - because we were late - was on climb-out over ICS.
Climbing out of Meridian under the bag, I was nervous and rough. As we passed into the high altitude sector, my instructor told me to check in with Center. From ground school I knew there were two entirely different check-in reports depending upon whether in a radar or non-radar environment. There were mnemonic crutches for each, but I couldn’t remember them. To say I didn’t have a clue is an understatement!
So my check-in went like this:
PS: Several months later, I heard this story in the O’Club. I slipped quietly away as all wondered who the dumb-shit was.
Climbing out of Meridian under the bag, I was nervous and rough. As we passed into the high altitude sector, my instructor told me to check in with Center. From ground school I knew there were two entirely different check-in reports depending upon whether in a radar or non-radar environment. There were mnemonic crutches for each, but I couldn’t remember them. To say I didn’t have a clue is an understatement!
So my check-in went like this:
Me: “Atlanta Center, this is Navy November Fox XXX…”
CNTR: “Go ahead, NFXXX.”
Long pause… [And heavy breathing]
Me: “Atlanta Center, this is Navy November Fox XXX…”
CNTR [Now with obvious impatience]: “Go ahead, NFXXX!”
Long pause… [And more heavy breathing]
Me: “Atlanta Center, this is Navy November Fox XXX…”
CNTR [Now obviously pissed!]: “Go ahead, NFXXX!!!!!”
[With no pause now.]
Me: “Atlanta Center, this is Navy November Fox XXX…ah…. ah…. I think my instructor wants to talk to you.”
PS: Several months later, I heard this story in the O’Club. I slipped quietly away as all wondered who the dumb-shit was.
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