Short Final

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • A pilot receives taxi clearance to an airport restaurant and is informed by ground control about a $5 hamburger special.
  • The pilot humorously remarks on the "hundred-dollar hamburger" concept, a term referring to the high cost of flying just for a meal.
  • Ground control playfully confirms the joke, stating the hamburger costs $100 for the pilot but only $5 for them.
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Whitted Ground:
“N12345, clear of the active, taxi to the Hangar Restaurant.”

N12345:
“345 cleared to the restaurant via ‘Bravo.'”

Whitted Ground:
“They’re featuring five dollar hamburgers today.”

N12345:
“Five dollars? I thought it was a hundred-dollar hamburger!”

Whitted Ground:
“For you, it’s a hundred dollars. For me, it’s five dollars.”


Michael J. McCarthy
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