Short Final: Who's There?

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Recently, my private pilot student and I were returning to Aurora State Airport (KUAO) in Oregon, from a lesson. At the 10-nm mark, he properly contacted the tower with "KUAO Tower, [N-tail number], 10 miles northwest, with Mathew." Tower responded, "[N-tail number], I'm sure Mathew is very nice, but information Mike is current." To steal a phrase from years past, "Students say the darndest things."

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/features/sometimes-names-matter
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Pleased to meet you, Matt.

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Or… I wonder who’s Mike?:rofl::rofl::rofl:

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I always call in with Whisky as having the “Booze News.” In 50+ years no tower has corrected me yet.

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Back almost fifty years ago, I was with a student holding short of the active runway at a ‘smallish’ airport. Our number was 9885U. He called tower and stated “Grumman niner eighter eighter five uniform is ready”. I laughed and the student looked puzzled. I knew the guys in the tower well. They were trying SO hard to contain themselves.

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