buttman wrote in
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On Mar 31, 4:18*am, Ed Sharkey wrote:
On Mar 31, 10:14*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:



buttman wrote
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On Mar 29, 10:09*pm, Benjamin Dover
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buttman wrote
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On Mar 28, 5:00*am, "Mike Gilmour"
wrot
e:
Listening to Boston ATC at various times the Tower controller
asks

a fligh
t
if they 'have got their numbers" (?) or a flight will say
they're not read
y
to proceed because they "don't have their numbers".
What does this mean as it doesnt translate here in the UK?
TIA

I've always heard the phrase used when ATC asks or a pilot
responds

regarding whether they have the information broadcasted on a
AWOS/ASOS frequency. When the tower is open, its an ATIS, so
theres

a letter to go with it. If the tower is closed, or there is no
tower, its just a continuously updated recording of numbers.
Since you can't say "We have information Bravo", you say "We
have the numbers". At KBOS I doubt the tower closes, so my
guess is the controller is using this term as a colloquialism
for "ATIS information"

If the tower is closed, or there is no tower, who are you
communicating "the numbers" to? *And who cares?

The center/approach controllers aren't going to clear you for an
approach until you tell them you have the weather at the airport,
whether the tower is closed or not.

Good grief, you're a compleat.. ......... idiot.

Bertie- Hide quoted text -

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Well...

Good to know that the art of rational discourse is not yet dead in
the Land of the Free!

Guys, how does this sort of thing help promote the cause of GA
flying?

Ed

eh, thats bertie you're responding to. He's not really into promoting
GA.

I've done nmore to promote GA, than you will ever do, accident-waiting-to-
happen boi.



He's more like the group's mascot dressed in a fuzzy animal suit
that struts around getting laughs from everyone, like they have at
baseball games. Actually, he's not even that. He's the generic
visitor's mascot that always gets beat up by the home team mascot
during the 7th inning stretch.


Good god you're an idiot. None of the sabove is the correct answer. I'm not
like anything.


Bertie