Short Final: Identity Crisis

From an IFR Magazine reader – Name withheld by request

I am based at a non-towered field and some days it is more “uncontrolled” than others. Finishing up my flight review the other day, my instructor and I heard a traffic call that went something like this:

“Small City Traffic, Piper Three Six Alpha Charlie … uh … Charlie Alpha … hell, I don’t know what I am. I’m an airplane. I’m downwind for Runway 21.”

If he made any more calls we missed them, probably laughing too hard.