Short Final

Editorial Staff

Monday, August 28, 2006 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

An Air Traffic Controller repeatedly misidentified a pilot's Piper Cherokee as a "Warrior" and "Cessna" during touch-and-go operations.
The pilot attempted to correct the controller multiple times regarding the aircraft type.
Despite the pilot's corrections, the controller continued to use incorrect aircraft designations, ending with the pilot giving up and the controller laughing.

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I was in the pattern at KSRQ shooting a bunch of touch and goes in a Piper Cherokee. The tower called with my next landing clearance. The conversation went something like this…

Tower: Warrior 12345, cleared touch and go, runway 22.

Me: Cherokee 12345, cleared touch and go, runway 22.

Tower: Cessna 12345, roger. Winds 240 at 5.

Me: 12345 is a Piper Cherokee, sir. Roger Wind.

Tower: Warrior 12345, copy.

Me: …Whatever.

Tower: (Laughter)