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and you thought is was real?I am shocked, shocked I tell you that someone would post something false on the internet.
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some controllers have no sense of humor. The ATIS (Automated terminal information system) is a radio broadcast with wind,visibility, ceiling and traffic pattern information at an airport. It is given a letter that increments with any changes.
And you know that guy keeps a flask in his desk drawer too. If they weren't judgmental they'd have no thoughts at all.some controllers have no sense of humor. The ATIS (Automated terminal information system) is a radio broadcast with wind,visibility, ceiling and traffic pattern information at an airport. It is given a letter that increments with any changes.
One day i was flying into an airport and the guy recording the ATIS said, blah blah blah this is the booze news, information Whiskey ( the letter W)
later i was flying into another airport that had information whiskey and reported ' twin cessna skyking1234, with the booze news" and the guy was not the least bit pleased. No fucking sense of humor (gets out of plane and a half rack of empties falls out the door).
(This is completely untrue, by the way) --the account was based on a poorly-researched, semi-fictional non-fiction book about the history of women's health which was, otherwise quite decent. I can't remember the author's name, but the account of "physicians stimulating hysterical women" doesn't turn up in medical history, and was later shown to be a false account. She walked this back with "Well, I took some liberties to tell a story and didn't expect everything to be taken as fact." Or something like that....
Anyway, this account became one of those things that was "bizarrely true enough" to grab popular attention and is now widely accepted as truth. Like anti-vaccine nonsense, you just need to convince enough humans about something that they want to believe, and no retraction will change their minds after they have tuned their brains to "what is true." There was even a recent movie made about it. ...but this never happened.
...It's like Marco Polo. That guy ever existed!
