My son is listening to the exchange between me and the controller and wants to chime in on the conversion. I said to my son, "Just hang on; I will give you a chance". I never should have said that because now he is all excited to talk on the radio.
As I start to turn inbound on the turn, the Approach control said "Contact tower when established on the localizer". So I told my young Padawan Learner "OK, when this needle gets here on the dial, push the radio button and tell the tower that 93 Romeo is inbound on the localizer". Now imagine this, I am giving basic instrument instruction to a 9 year old, I cannot get adults to say this during training.
So before I can give him something simpler to say he keys the mike and says
"REBEL BASE, THIS IS RED 5. WE ARE STARTING OUR ATTACK RUN ON THE DEATH STAR".
Good God. Now this post 9/11 and before I can key my mike and say anything, the tower jumps on and says
"RED 5, YOU'RE CLEARED FOR THE APPROACH TO THE DEATH STAR. "
So you see. This is why I own my own aircraft. You cannot beat this kind of quality time with your kids. And there is no way you can put a price on that.
- Jeff Bryant, Southwest Regional Director, Beech Aero Club. [1975 X-Wing Fighter Model B-19, N6993R] [http://www.beechaeroclub.org/displayarticle324.html]
