---------------------------------------------------------- Commander-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Wed 06/22/05: 2 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 05:31 PM - Re: Prototype Commander - The L-3805 (RRamm52@cs.com) 2. 11:12 PM - Hilarious (nico css) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 05:31:18 PM PST US From: RRamm52@cs.com Subject: Re: Commander-List: Prototype Commander - The L-3805 --> Commander-List message posted by: RRamm52@cs.com We even enjoy your goofs, Bob! Rob In a message dated 6/17/2005 9:27:25 AM Central Standard Time, BobsV35B@aol.com writes: > > Well guys, I goofed!! > > I meant to send that message only to Barry and George, but didn't get the > address properly changed. > > Sorry about that! > > Happy Skies, > > Old Bob ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 11:12:25 PM PST US From: "nico css" Subject: Commander-List: Hilarious --> Commander-List message posted by: "nico css" That's so funny. We had a real-life incident in SA along the same lines many years ago. The airport where I used to hang out for many years, Wonderboom, was located directly north of the Waterkloof air force base whose terminal area was south of Wonderboom and over the city of Pretoria. Civilian aircraft was rarely allowed to fly over the city because of military activities there. For a number of years we had a very obnoxious air traffic controller, Dirk Munnik, in the tower at Wonderboom and he would interfere and lecture everybody about everything, both in the tower and over the radio. It was a favorite pastime for pilots to walk in on Dirk and ask him questions just to see him light up and part with his superior intellect and knowledge, much to the amusement of everyone. Newcomers to the airport were oftentimes referred to Dirk for the most mundane and frivolous information, just to introduce them to this guy. So, one day there were a number of people in the tower while he was showing off correcting and reprimanding pilots, workers, and everyone who was within earshot, the severity, volume and antics of which depended upon who was with him in the tower and who would afford him the most bragging rights. A Cessna 310 called in for landing instructions and the pilot smartly announced his position as 'over the city of Pretoria.' Apparently Dirk's audience was the right fit, as if he couldn't believe his luck that such a call would come while he has a home crowd observing him in action. He started lecturing the pilot from a superior height about the restricted area that he happens to be in, and a myriad of other violations which Dirk now has the power to either report or forgive the hapless pilot for this terrible transgression. Dirk's coupe de gr=E2ce was when he instructed the Cessna pilot to report to him in the tower after landing. The real torture was about to occur when the pilot has to suffer Dirk's ire in person. It was, however, not Dirk's day that day. While silence fell on everyone in anticipation waiting to hear the poor pilot stumble and apologize, the response came: "This is general so-and-so and I am the officer commanding northern command. I own this airspace and I will fly whenever and where ever I please. I didn't ask you to comment on my position but to provide me with landing instructions. Do you understand that simple instruction or do you want me to explain it to you in person when I get there?" Dirk needed to be brought down a peg or two and it was long overdue, but the humiliation was brutal. We felt sorry for the guy for a moment or so and chuckled over the incident for a long time afterwards. I just did it again. Nico ----- Original Message ----- This is the alleged transcript of an actual radio conversation between a US naval ship and Canadian maritime contact of the coast of Newfoundland in October 1995. Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees North to avoid a collision. Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees South to avoid collision. Americans: This is the captain of a US navy ship; I say again divert your course. Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course. Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP. Canadians: We are a lighthouse; your call.