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Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • During an early morning flight, the pilot noted an unusually quiet air traffic control frequency over Worcester, MA.
  • The air traffic controller suggested that people were likely either asleep or in church.
  • The pilot's minister father-in-law humorously interjected, speculating that people might be "in church and asleep!"
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Several years ago, I was flying my father-in-law back to Portland, Maine. He had been in Connecticut preforming a wedding. We got an early start, and at about 7 a.m., we were overflying the Worster, MA Class Delta.

After making contact with the tower, I commented that it was very quiet on their frequency.

The controller responded that everybody must be asleep or in church.

My father-in-law, the ever-alert minister, pressed the button that was both intercom and transmit PTT and said, “Maybe they are in church and asleep!”


David Faile
via e-mail

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