This happened at the small but busy Sarasota Florida airport in 1975. The tower was open from 6am until 10pm and most of the traffic was during daylight hours. There was a National flight in every night about 8:30pm and often had a joker at the wheel.


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On a particular dark night after handoff from Tampa approach the controller hears:

“Sarasota tower, National123 with you… (pause) … guess where?.”

The controller promptly turned off all the airport lights – there was no other traffic – and replied:
“National123 – Sarasota tower – guess where?…”

After a silence of about fifteen seconds the chastened National pilot came back:
“Sarasota tower this is National Airlines flight 123 from Tampa and we are exactley 10.3 DME on the 300 degree radial inbound for landing..”

The controller switched the lights back on and cleared the pilot to land.

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Sam
Sam
13 years ago

The other (And the funnier) version is: ABC tower, guess who? and the response from the tower (after switching the lights off); Guess where!!!…

naveed
naveed
13 years ago

nice :)))

Slow2Life
Slow2Life
9 years ago

i didnt know you could do that :O