"Mike Adams" wrote in message
newskIwd.56$iD.12@fed1read05...
This reminds me of an interesting radio exchange I heard at DVT a few
weeks ago. There was an
airplane departing with a zero in its call sign, I can't remember, but
let's say N1023A. The pilot, called
himself "one-oh-two-three-alpha". The controller never corrected him on
this and never offered him a
shortened call sign, but instead responded to him as "november one oscar
two three alpha". The pilot
didn't catch on for the longest time, continuing to read this back as "one
oh two three alpha". The
controller continued to give him extra traffic callouts and instructions,
still with the full "oscar" ident, until
finally the pilot woke up and realized the situation and said, "and tower,
that's one zero two three alpha",
to which the controller just said "thank you" and that was the end of it.
The games people play....

Mike

I used to fly Learjet N1DC. We would always check on as One Dallas Cowboys.
The controllers everywhere would come back the same except the ones in the
northeast. Of course this was back when the Cowboys were winning Superbowls.
: )