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From: ark@rabbit.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: funny story
Message-ID: <2923@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 14:06:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 29 14:06:29 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Jul-84 05:51:19 EDT
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Several years ago, I was flying a Cessna Cardinal RG from South
Bend, IN to Morristown, NJ.  (For those unfamiliar with South Bend, their
airport is slightly larger than Morristown.  For those unfamiliar
with Morristown, their airport is slightly smaller than South Bend.)

Anyway, I started up, called for my instrument clearance, and,
instead of the usual "clearance on request" or "advise when
ready to copy," the ground controller responded with my entire
clearance, all the way to Morristown (about 5 hours), at the
speed of a tobacco auctioneer.

Well, I'm pretty good at copying clearances, and this time I
was right there.  When the controller was finished, I read it
back to him at the same fast tempo, and he responded with what
must be the ultimate compliment:

	"Twin Cessna 46H, readback correct, taxi runway 27."

I was feeling pretty good about it all until I started to taxi
and discovered I had forgotten to untie the tail.