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Key Takeaways:

  • An air traffic controller asked an aircraft to "state position" during the 1980s.
  • The pilot humorously responded with their political and social "position" before stating their geographical location.
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During the ’80s, while with Mugu Approach, a controller asked an aircraft “to state position.”

Pilot came back: “Fiscally conservative. Socially, somewhat liberal. Two miles west of Point Dume.”

Greg Andrews
via e-mail

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