Speedbird 206: " Frankfurt , Speedbird 206! Clear of active runway."
Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."
The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- And I didn't land."
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A Pan Am 727 flight, waiting for start clearance in Munich , overheard the following:
Lufthansa: "Groundcontrol, wie spät können wir los?"
Ground: "If you want an answer you must speak in English."
Lufthansa: "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany . Why must I speak English?"
Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war!"
H/T Herve
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Pilot conversations...
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3 comments:
First time I heard that one it was "just once in 1944 and I was only dropping something off, I didn't stop".
I was first told the Frankfurt one 30+yrs ago by a friend of my parents who was a senior BOAC Pilot and had been a bomber pilot in the war and retired from BOAC as they changed to 747 from 707s which he loved used to say flying a 747 was like flying a Bus.
Oh, those ROCK!
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