You will not get this kind of announcement on United Airlines or BA. First class.
More rogue waypoints
The latest from Flight International: BEENO, DANDI, TOPPA. GINIS on route to Dublin. For TV sitcom fans: DELBO and RODNI.
For Looney Tunes, there’s a routeing in Australia – ZZ929 from Townsvill to Mt Gordon: TL ITORT EYSAW APUSS ECATT DCT.
On the approach to Newark Airport in New Jersey: HOWYA DOOIN. Louisiana has RYTHM, Kentucky has BRBON, Kansas City has SPICY BARBQ RIBBS, Montpelier, VT has HAMM, BURGR and FRYYS.
Apparently, there is a BUXOM and JUGGS in the US but revealing their true obsession there is also: GOALL, PPUNT, DRPPD, FTBAL, COACH, QTRBK, TAKKL, RECVR, FMBLE and TCHDN.
Funny waypoint names
I noticed that a lot of waypoints in the channel are named after famous British admirals: DRAKE, HARDY, HAWKE. Then there’s the sequence THRED and NEDUL near the Isle of Wight.
Thanks to Flight International for the rest of these funny waypoint names.
From Australia: WONSA, JOLLY, SWAGY, CAMBS, BUYIA, BYLLA, BONGS, UNDER, ACOOL, EBARR and TREES.
From Brisbane: LEAKY, BOATS, SINNK, DRAIN and PLUGG and from Sydney: SOSIJ SIZZL.
1930s Jumbo (Fake)
A pilot friend of mine sent me these pictures. I don’t know where they come from. They’re based on a historical plane but they have been bigged-up beyond the craziest dreams of Howard Hughes. I particularly like the version with the giant cannons.
Danger of digital watches
Tower: “Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o’clock, 6 miles!”
Delta 351: “Give us another hint! We have digital watches!”
Don’t Panic!
A stormy flight aboard a Boeing 707, and off-duty airline stewardess is sitting next to a man in the grip of a white-knuckle fever as he watches, through his porthole, the aircraft’s wing bending and bouncing in the tempest. The stewardess tries to reassure him; she works in the industry and flies all the time, she tells him. There is nothing to worry about; the pilots have everything under control.
“Madam,” he replies, “I am a Boeing Engineer and we did not design this aircraft to do what it is doing.”