• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • Contact

Golf Hotel Whiskey

Golf Hotel Whiskey: for pilots and aviation enthusiasts

That familiar sounding voice

It can happen to any of us but when the crew of a United States airliner made a wrong turn during taxiing and came nose to nose with another aircraft, the furious ground controller screamed: “(call sign) where are you going? I told you to turn right on ‘Charlie’ taxiway; you turned right on ‘Delta’. Stop right there."

Continuing her verbal lashing of the embarrassed crew, she shouted:

"You’ve screwed everything up. It’ll take forever to sort this out. You stay right there and don’t move until I tell you to. You can expect progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour and I want you to go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you and how I tell you. You got that?"

Naturally the frequency went very quiet until an unknown male pilot broke the silence and asked: "Wasn’t I married to you once?"

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Patrick Flannigan says

    June 22, 2009 at 20:26

    That's hilarious. You know, I was flying into Knoxville, TN this month and there was a Seneca messing everything up. He missed two calls, turned down the wrong taxi way and wound up completely lost on the field. I felt so bad for the guy (and the controller!)

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Matthew Stibbe
Matthew Stibbe is CEO of Articulate Marketing and Turbine, the easy, online way to deal with office paperwork. He has an FAA CPL/IR and an EASA PPL/IR and sometimes flies a Cirrus SR-22. He also writes about wine at Vincarta and being a better manager at Geek Boss.
Bureaucracy must die eBook
Subscribe via RSS

Recent Posts

  • IATA Airport Abbreviations
  • Upcoming Concorde and Apollo documentaries
  • Lie Back And Think Of England: London To Austin On BA’s New 787 Dreamliner
  • Video: Parachuting from the edge of space
  • Hilarious preflight safety video for GA aircraft
  • San Francisco Airport at night – beautiful time lapse video
  • A practical jetpack (finally) takes off
  • A man in a hot air balloon realises he is lost
  • Pegasus House: The former HQ of the Bristol Aeroplane Company is restored
  • Vintage British aviation posters from the 1920-1930s

Copyright © 2023 Golf Hotel Whiskey. All rights reserved.