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  • These can't be real ATC Quotes --- I hope

      Tower: Hawk 20, is this the sam...he same pilot. Pilot: Tower, there’s a runway light burning. Tower: I m sure there must be...are a fuel truck. Pilot:: Tower, give me a rough time check...ink, I have lost my compass. Tower: Judging the way you are...

  • Im' going to ...

    A huge C-5 cargo plane was sitting near where a trike was waiting to...because the military plane was closer than normal, and asked the tower to find out the intentions of the C-5. Before the tower could reply, a voice came ove...

  • Single Engine Running Rough

    Trike Pilot:  Tower, Experimental Trike 16Alpha, request priority landing due to my engine running rough. Tower:  Trike 16 Alpha you will be number two, behind a B-52 that has one engine shut down. Trike Pilot:  “Ah, the dreaded seven-engine approach.”

  • Remembering TWA

    ...Airlines) don't you? Well I do, as one day at LAX everyone in the tower held their breath at the same t...sand dunes at the runway's end. Note: We viewed this from the old control tower located in the middle of airp...

  • PSA902 Gets Hijacked!

    ...d shift (11pm-7am). LAX tower was notified by LA Center that...I was working the local control position (clearing landings/t...A flight to a separate ground control frequency and we had another...bond between PSA and the LAX tower controllers was even tighter...

  • Tower: “Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o’clock, 6 miles!” Delta 351: “Give us another hint! We have digital watches!”

    Tower: “Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o’clock, 6 miles!”Delta 351: “Give us another hint! We have digital watches!”

  • Were Tower Closures a Grand Bluff?

    ...  With the announcement on Friday that the sequester-driven closures of hundreds of contract control towers was off, we might be tempted...

  • The DC-8 and the Trike (joke)

    One day the pilot of a Trike was told by the tower to hold short of the active runway while a DC-8 landed. The DC-8 landed, rolled out, turned around, and taxied back past the Trike. Some qu...

  • The subject of grips

    I was on ebay and came across these.  Thoughts? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bike...uminum-Alloy-Handlebar-Handle-Bar-Lock-On-Grip-End-Control-/140898553424?pt=Cycling_Part...uminum-Alloy-Handlebar-Handle-Bar-Lock-On-Grip-End-Contr...

  • Private Pilot License in Trike Flying

    Hi all I am curious about the benefits of doing a Private Pilot License for Weight Shift Control flying. It seems, it gives you the priviledges of Private Pilo...How many of you have done your Private Pilot with weight shift contr...