by Keith Smith » Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:29 am
Oh yes, plenty of pet peeves that can be addressed. My other favorite has to be the life story check in,
"Southern California TRACON Radar Approach Facility Control Building West Concourse, THIS IS Cessna Skyhawk November One Two Three Four Alpha Bravo, type Cessna Skyhawk One Seventy Two, Slant Golf.....WITH YOU. We are just over our present position at this time, APPROXIMATELY three hundred and forty eight miles west southwest of a fix you've never heard of that also isn't in your airspace, just over a vague geographical reference that won't help you in the slightest. It's near a road, by the lake...no the other lake. Correction, there are TWO roads in sight. I say again, two roads in sight. We're in a Cessna 172SP Skyhawk, request radar advisories and flight following, and if you have time, traffic advisories to our destination. We're heading to Los Angeles International Airport, L A X, you may not be familiar with that one, let me spell it kinetically, Kilo...Lion, Adam, Xavier, correction ...xylophone. Currently at four zero five zero feet, that's FL270 fathoms, altimeter two niner, niner two after pressing the 'B' key in my simulator, which is Microsoft Flight Simulator X, Gold Edition. Type Skyhawk, Cessna 172SP.......
Current heading 302, speed 118. Landing light on, beacon on, strobes on, mixture currently full rich because I have no idea what that knob does. Squawking One Two Zero Zero. Type Skyhawk, with you....
I say again...."
I won't lie, that had some significant therapeutic value.