BIGUN 1,490 #1 March 12, 2009 In addition to communicating with the local Air Traffic Control facility, all aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give the Iranian Air Defense Radar (military) a ten minute 'heads up' if they will be transiting Iranian airspace. This is a common procedure for commercial aircraft and involves giving them your call sign, transponder code, type aircraft, and points of origin and destination. This conversation was overhead on the VHF Guard (emergency) frequency. The conversation went like this... Iranian Air Defense Radar: 'Unknown aircraft you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.' Aircraft: 'This is a United States aircraft. I am in Iraqi airspace.' Air Defense Radar: 'You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace we will launch interceptor aircraft!' Aircraft: 'This is a United States Marine Corps F-18 fighter. Send 'em up, I'll wait!' Air Defense Radar: Total silence - no response. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Unstable 9 #2 March 12, 2009 Quote Aircraft: 'This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send 'em up, I'll wait!' Air Defense Radar: (no response... total silence) BUAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA That made my day!!! =========Shaun ========== Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #3 March 12, 2009 tricky stuff airspace... QuoteIran Air Flight 655, also known as IR655, was a civilian airliner shot down by US missiles on Sunday 3 July 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, toward the end of the Iran-Iraq War. The aircraft, an Airbus A300B2 operated by Iran Air as IR655, was flying from Bandar Abbas, Iran, to Dubai, UAE, when it was destroyed by the U.S. Navy's guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes, killing all 290 passengers and crew aboard, including 66 children, ranking it seventh among the deadliest airliner fatalities. Vincennes was traversing the Straits of Hormuz, inside Iranian territorial waters, at the time of the attack and IR655 was within Iranian airspace. According to the US government, the crew mistakenly identified the Iranian Airbus A300 as an attacking F-14 Tomcat fighter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BIGUN 1,490 #4 March 12, 2009 Ya know... some folks just can't help but throw rocks at even the most light-hearted things in SC. Fuck it. It's gone.Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gawain 0 #5 March 12, 2009 Quote Ya know... some folks just can't help but throw rocks at even the most light-hearted things in SC. Fuck it. It's gone. DAMN IT!! I wanted a good laugh this morning!!! F**k*n' whiners...So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright 'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life Make light! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dropdeded 0 #6 March 12, 2009 And thanks for the laugh. I read it as it was intended, humor......... ------------------------------------------ The Dude Abides. - Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtnesbitt 0 #7 March 12, 2009 Can you PM it to me? I dont find anything offensive and enjoy a good laugh."If this post needs to be moderated I would prefer it to be completly removed and not edited and butchered into a disney movie" - DorkZone Hero Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shropshire 0 #8 March 12, 2009 It was funny, nearly as funny as the mythical Lighthouse story ...... Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid collision. Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision. Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision. Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course. Canadians: No, I say again, you divert YOUR course. Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH--I SAY AGAIN, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH--OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP. Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call. (.)Y(.) Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #9 March 12, 2009 QuoteQuoteYa know... some folks just can't help but throw rocks at even the most light-hearted things in SC. Fuck it. It's gone. DAMN IT!! I wanted a good laugh this morning!!! Take that quote from message #2, type it into Google, and you'll find the joke. I'd post it here, but I'm going to respect Bigun's deletion. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nerdgirl 0 #10 March 12, 2009 Missed it too. Something related to the unconfirmed reports of a US fighter plane (don’t know which one or which service) shooting down an Iranian UAV very recently? /Marg Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters. Tibetan Buddhist saying Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
