Pilot Slang on Radios
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Stone Cold
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No problemo...I had fun too...always good to put a face with the on-screen persona and see how different people are away from the computer.
To hijack the thread, I'll be in TEB Sun-Wed this week (2nd-5th) and some time next week (don't have the dates on me yet) if anybody's in town...
To hijack the thread, I'll be in TEB Sun-Wed this week (2nd-5th) and some time next week (don't have the dates on me yet) if anybody's in town...
fish314
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Somebody about 600 posts back mentioned "No Joy" as pilot slang. I think that's actually just adopted military-speak. Here's some more:
Strangle parrot= turn off your squawk
Visual= I can see a friendly
Blind= I can't see a friendly
Tally= I can see a bad guy
No Joy= I can't see a bad guy
Sweet= Your squawk is coming in properly
Sour= Your squawk is NOT coming in properly.
As for some interesting interesting radio chatter, I heard the following on Center once:
Center: "Callsign whatever, what's your type?"
Callsign whatever: "Blonde, slim, well endowed..."
Center: "Roger, have your request, you may have to wait on that one... Now what's your aircraft model?"
Strangle parrot= turn off your squawk
Visual= I can see a friendly
Blind= I can't see a friendly
Tally= I can see a bad guy
No Joy= I can't see a bad guy
Sweet= Your squawk is coming in properly
Sour= Your squawk is NOT coming in properly.
As for some interesting interesting radio chatter, I heard the following on Center once:
Center: "Callsign whatever, what's your type?"
Callsign whatever: "Blonde, slim, well endowed..."
Center: "Roger, have your request, you may have to wait on that one... Now what's your aircraft model?"
rickyrhodesii
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fish314 said:
I hear this from time to time:
Controller: "N123, traffic 3 o'clock, 4 miles, westbound, Beech 1900, 4,000."
N123: "N123, no-joy, pop-eye"
English translation: "We're in clouds...can't see the traffic."
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
This is a Steve Warmath special.
Once heard a story about some Indian dudes who were flying somewhere in a Seminole. They had the following exchange with the controller.
N123: Center, N123 with request
Center: 123 go ahead
N123: Sir we'd like direct destination
Center: ....ahhh.....sir I show you as slant alpha is that correct?
N123: Yes sir we have magic box
Center: I have your request
They kept asking the guy for direct but he just kept saying, "I have your request"
Another fun one.
I was coming into the Dallas area last summer from Meridian, MS (ATP guys know where that's at). We ended up getting direct Quitman, direct Cedar Creek, direct Arlington. I knew this would NEVER fly once I got close to the Dallas area. So we flew direct towards Quitman for about 300 miles, then we got checked in with Shreveport approach and it went something like this.
N21113: Hey approach Seminole 21113 checkin' one zero ten thousand smooth good evening
Approach: 21113 Shreveport altimeter is 30.00
N21113: 30 1113
5 seconds later
Approach: N21113 approach
N21113: Yeah approach we're ready to copy that ammended routing now.
Approach: (laughing), ok your cleared direct Cedar Creek and the Dodje Three Arrival...actually....just give me direct Dodje resume the arrival, discretion to 8,000'
The guy I was with kind of looked at me funny and said, "How'd you know that we were going to get a routing change." Simple, there's no way in or out of the Dallas area without being on an arrival or departure. Ever. They'd put Jesus himself on the Dodje three, and probably send him all the way to Cedar Creek instead of just giving him direct Dodje!
Once heard a story about some Indian dudes who were flying somewhere in a Seminole. They had the following exchange with the controller.
N123: Center, N123 with request
Center: 123 go ahead
N123: Sir we'd like direct destination
Center: ....ahhh.....sir I show you as slant alpha is that correct?
N123: Yes sir we have magic box
Center: I have your request
They kept asking the guy for direct but he just kept saying, "I have your request"
Another fun one.
I was coming into the Dallas area last summer from Meridian, MS (ATP guys know where that's at). We ended up getting direct Quitman, direct Cedar Creek, direct Arlington. I knew this would NEVER fly once I got close to the Dallas area. So we flew direct towards Quitman for about 300 miles, then we got checked in with Shreveport approach and it went something like this.
N21113: Hey approach Seminole 21113 checkin' one zero ten thousand smooth good evening
Approach: 21113 Shreveport altimeter is 30.00
N21113: 30 1113
5 seconds later
Approach: N21113 approach
N21113: Yeah approach we're ready to copy that ammended routing now.
Approach: (laughing), ok your cleared direct Cedar Creek and the Dodje Three Arrival...actually....just give me direct Dodje resume the arrival, discretion to 8,000'
The guy I was with kind of looked at me funny and said, "How'd you know that we were going to get a routing change." Simple, there's no way in or out of the Dallas area without being on an arrival or departure. Ever. They'd put Jesus himself on the Dodje three, and probably send him all the way to Cedar Creek instead of just giving him direct Dodje!
Bog
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BobDDuck said:
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!
I cannot believe how many pompous a*holes out there love to spout off about things they know nothing about. From what I've been told, our ex-MEC Chairman has told every other ALPA MEC Chairman that Freedom is, and has been for 3 years, an ALPA airline. It's been in the Airline Pilot magazine. It's all over the place if these guys would just pull their head out of the sand.
Again, THANK YOU!
My favorite was called The Bitch Slap or The Slap at Melbourne, Fl.
When taking off we would normally go from 5 over to 9L for slam and goes with students and then we would request the slap back over to 5 when we were done.
So it would go something like this...especially late night.
Warrior: "Melbourne Tower, FIT 13 Holding short Rwy 5 at Alpha to remain in pattern."
Tower: "FIT 13 cleared for Take off Rwy 5. make left traffic 9L, cleared for the option 9L remain left traffic."
Warrior: read back appropriately.
Then normally the instructor would ask for "The slap" back over to 5 after a few gear rattlers on 9L .
When taking off we would normally go from 5 over to 9L for slam and goes with students and then we would request the slap back over to 5 when we were done.
So it would go something like this...especially late night.
Warrior: "Melbourne Tower, FIT 13 Holding short Rwy 5 at Alpha to remain in pattern."
Tower: "FIT 13 cleared for Take off Rwy 5. make left traffic 9L, cleared for the option 9L remain left traffic."
Warrior: read back appropriately.
Then normally the instructor would ask for "The slap" back over to 5 after a few gear rattlers on 9L .
ROFCIBC
Well-Known Member
Tim said:
Ah yes, the great Mister Buzz! On top of his ability to control airplanes he also seemed to have a view out the front of every airplane he was talking to.
On a west downwind for the south runway one day, there was the usual thunderstorm in front of us. About 5 miles away, just as I was about to key the mike and ask for a deviation, Mister Buzz comes on with,
"Delta 1198, I'm going to turn you before you get to that storm." and he did.
A truly amazing individual!
Maximilian_Jenius
Super User
ROFCIBC said:
I'm not an airline pilot but I have heard of Buzz. Anyone know if he is still working/retired or at ATL?
ERfly
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You guys may have Buzz in Atlanta, but we've got Axe in Houston Approach. This guy is awesome. Nothing makes my day more than the following exchange:
BTA XXXX: "Approach, Jetlink XXXX 10,000, X(ATIS)"
IAH APP: "Jetlincoln XXXX, keep it fast dude, 26L, you got a bent-wing pencil jet 1000' below ya, just in case ya'll get a "Traffic, Traffic" (in the TCAS voice)."
This guy has a million of them. Our XRs are Bent-Wing Pencil Jets. The 737s are Hoovers, the -800 and -900s are Super-Dooper Hoovers. The best was when he cleared southwest to the first fix on the Leona departure....
IAH APP: "Southwest 903, cleared direct Whatchu talkin' 'bout."
SWA 903: "Uh...(dead air then the mike clicks off)"
SWA 903: "Uh, you're going to have to give us that fix again, it's kinda early."
IAH APP: "Southwest 903, cleared direct Whatcu talkin' 'bout WLLIS."
SWA 903: "Uh...huh-huh. Good one. Direct WLLIS, 903."
IAH APP: "I thought so."
He's probably one of the best controllers we have.
We also have Richard (Mr. Happy...JETLink 2345, Houston Tower, good afternoon...). He's great, but if you have to listen to his voice on a 20 mile final at Vref+5, it really gets on your nerves (especially last leg).
BTA XXXX: "Approach, Jetlink XXXX 10,000, X(ATIS)"
IAH APP: "Jetlincoln XXXX, keep it fast dude, 26L, you got a bent-wing pencil jet 1000' below ya, just in case ya'll get a "Traffic, Traffic" (in the TCAS voice)."
This guy has a million of them. Our XRs are Bent-Wing Pencil Jets. The 737s are Hoovers, the -800 and -900s are Super-Dooper Hoovers. The best was when he cleared southwest to the first fix on the Leona departure....
IAH APP: "Southwest 903, cleared direct Whatchu talkin' 'bout."
SWA 903: "Uh...(dead air then the mike clicks off)"
SWA 903: "Uh, you're going to have to give us that fix again, it's kinda early."
IAH APP: "Southwest 903, cleared direct Whatcu talkin' 'bout WLLIS."
SWA 903: "Uh...huh-huh. Good one. Direct WLLIS, 903."
IAH APP: "I thought so."
He's probably one of the best controllers we have.
We also have Richard (Mr. Happy...JETLink 2345, Houston Tower, good afternoon...). He's great, but if you have to listen to his voice on a 20 mile final at Vref+5, it really gets on your nerves (especially last leg).
skydriverdc6
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Orlando Executive ATC
When I was actively flying in florida I worked for a company flying helicopters. One afternoon I flew into ORL executive. After making a few radio calls I reported 5 mile final to Tower. In a lot of instances we could usually break off of final and just hover taxi to the ramp, since we dont really need a runway. So I called up Tower and said
Me "Orlando Tower, Helicopter 3437T request"
Tower: "3437T go ahead with request"
Me: "3437T request to breakoff final approach and fly between hangar alpha to avionics shop"
Tower: 3437T, uhh not advised, we dont think you could fit in between those hangars.
Me: Helicopter 3437T roger.
Tower: Ohhhhhh, youre a helicopter, ok proceed
Me: *sigh*
When I was actively flying in florida I worked for a company flying helicopters. One afternoon I flew into ORL executive. After making a few radio calls I reported 5 mile final to Tower. In a lot of instances we could usually break off of final and just hover taxi to the ramp, since we dont really need a runway. So I called up Tower and said
Me "Orlando Tower, Helicopter 3437T request"
Tower: "3437T go ahead with request"
Me: "3437T request to breakoff final approach and fly between hangar alpha to avionics shop"
Tower: 3437T, uhh not advised, we dont think you could fit in between those hangars.
Me: Helicopter 3437T roger.
Tower: Ohhhhhh, youre a helicopter, ok proceed
Me: *sigh*
notawannabee
New Member
my instructor saw my grip on the yoke and said " treat it like a nipple "
now I fly a stick...and well. that's too personal
BTW...this is not something that was said over the radio
now I fly a stick...and well. that's too personal
BTW...this is not something that was said over the radio