On 17/09/2023 12:43, Magani wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 September 2023 at 11:43:44 pm UTC+10, David Brooks wrote:
>> On 16/09/2023 02:20, Magani wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 16 September 2023 at 6:23:16 am UTC+10, David Brooks wrote:
>>>> On 14/09/2023 22:41, Magani wrote:
>>>>> What a small world!! Cheers, Magani
>>>>
>>>> (YBBN, YBMK, NFFN, OOMS)
>>>> In exchange for you telling me what those abbreviations stand for, I'll
>>>> give you this priceless item:-
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqm73DLtwD0
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> David
>>>
>>> That after-dinner speech is a real classic. I stil get a chuckle out of it.
>>>
>>> Rather than give the abreviations away straight up, here's a couple of hints.
>>> 1) They are ICAO (not IATA) codes for airports. They're the towers/centres where I've spent most of my time telling pilots where to go. :-)
>>> 2) 1st letter is the area of the world, 2nd is the FIR, sub-region within that area or country, 3rd and 4th are the actual airport.
>>> 3) In the 1st example YBBN: Y = Australia, B = Brisbane FIR, BN = Brisbane.
>>>
>>> Also, I left 2 out (YSCB and YBCG - both only temporary)
>> Thanks, Magani
>>
>> I thought that might have been the case. I've now looked and note that
>> you've enjoyed living in pretty warm locations! :-D
>>
>> Once I worked with an RAAF ATC officer who told me he'd cleared an
>> aircraft to fly VFR below 500ft from Brisbane to Sydney (example names,
>> I can't remember now)). The pilot complied.
>>
>> Later the controller discovered that it was actually a Boing 747!
>>
>> --
>> David
>
> One of the 'old and bold' ATCOs here in Brisbane once asked an F-111 for his 'best speed downwind for sequencing'. The pilot's reply: ' Do you REALLY want that?' :-)
> For the non-aviation fraternity out there, an F-111 had a top speed higher than Concorde and would have broken a stack of windows as he went through the sound barrier.

Indeed! :-D

> Re the 'warm locations', NFFN was beautiful - our house was about 50 yards from the beach. 28-ish all year round. In OOMS, when it was 45C and sticky on the coast, it was generally about mid to high 20s at 8000' up in the mountains and a lot less humidity. As for Qld, as they used to say in the ads, 'Beautiful one day, perfect the next...'. The ad writers had obviously never lived through a cyclone in Nth Qld or the hordes of mosquitoes in the Gulf Country. :-)

Thanks for chatting! :-)

FYI:-
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/southwest-father-son-pilot-childhood-photo-recreated/index.html