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Key Takeaways:

  • An air traffic controller at Johnson County Executive Airport cleared a Cessna to land on runway 18.
  • The pilot thanked the controller for their help.
  • The controller responded with a humorous remark: "You bet. We do good work when we're awake!"
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Here’s one I heard just a week or so ago from the non-fed tower at my home base, Johnson County Executive Airport (KOJC) in Olathe, Kansas (a suburb of Kansas City):

Tower:
“Cessna 1234, you are clear to land runway 18.”

Cessna:
“Clear to land 18 – and thanks for the help today.”

Tower:
“You bet. We do good work when we’re awake!”


Johnny Rowlands
owner, KC Copters
pilot/reporter, KMBC-TV Kansas City’s NewsChopper9
via e-mail

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