Short Final

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • A pilot and ground control engage in a humorous exchange while the pilot taxis to a restaurant.
  • The conversation centers around the aviation idiom of a "hundred-dollar hamburger," referring to the actual cost of flying to get a meal.
  • Ground control delivers a punchline, distinguishing the pilot's costly "hundred-dollar" hamburger from their own affordable "five-dollar" hamburger, highlighting the flight-related expenses.
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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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