Showing posts with label Kolkata ATC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kolkata ATC. Show all posts

Monday, August 01, 2011

'Fishy' frequencies in the cockpit

TNN Aug 1, 2011, 03.56AM IST
KOLKATA: "And now, the recipe to make the most popular Bengali dish, 'bhapa ilish'," a sonorous voice wafted into the captain's headphone.

"Is this a joke?" the commander steering the Airbus A-320 aircraft with 200 people on board barked into the microphone. At the other end of the line, the controller was surprised. He hadn't cracked a joke. The mystery remained unsolved.


Read the full story here :
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Fishy-frequencies-in-the-cockpit/articleshow/9437266.cms


(Thanks to Ranajay Mallick, VU2ORO for sharing the link)

Another news report wrongly attributes QRM to All India Radio

Pilot, there's a radio jockey yakking in the cockpit
http://www.bangaloremirror.com/article/11/201108012011080100305866f5fec79b/Pilot-there%E2%80%99s-a-radio-jockey-yakking-in-the-cockpit.html