ATC: Say altitude
Pilot (feeling frisky): altitude
ATC: Say ALTITUDE
Pilot: ALTITUDE
ATC: Say 'Canceling IFR'
Pilot: Level 8000
Tower: Cessna N1234, be advised wake turbulence - UA
737. [pause]
Cessna: San Jose tower be advised the Cessna is ahead of the 737.
[longer pause]
Tower: UA 737, be advised wake turbulence Cessna 172.
Giggles and laughter in background.
Control : 123N (Cessna C152) please report your altittude. Cessna C152 : "Flight Level Three Thousand, Seven Hundred", " Control : "Roger, prepare to fire retro-rockets and re-enter the atmosphere!"
At London Gatwick: an Air France A320 is making an auto-approach. At 200
feet, the computer decided to make a go-around with no reason and no command from the
crew. Here is what we head on the TWR freq.:
Air France: London from Air France 1234,
It's going around!
London TWR: Air France 1234, report
intentions
Air France: Well ... to go with it sir!
"American 303 heavy, DFW tower. Make 360 for sequencing."
"DFW, American 303 heavy. Do you know how much it costs the airline for me to 360
this thing? About $2600!"
"American 303 heavy, DFW. Make one of those $2600 turns for sequencing, then report
outer marker."
The very first space shuttle flight.
Shuttle COLUMBUS in orbit above Spain:
COLUMBIA: Saragosso Tower, this is COLUMBUS. How do
you read me?
SARAGOSSO TWR: Read you five by five. What's your callsign?
COLUMBIA: COLUMBUS.
SARAGOSSO TWR: ??? What's your altitude?
COLUMBIA: One Zero Zero Zero Zero Zero Zero Zero