Short Final
Overheard in IFR Magazine‘s “On the Air” Heard this somewhere over Kansas: Center:“Airline 312, traffic. Eleven o’clock, three miles, FL 310 Citation, westbound.” Airline 312:“We got `em on the pig finder.” N700AN:“Kansas City Center, Cheyenne Zero Alpha November. Request.” Center:“Go ahead.” N700AN:“Was that a ‘Papa-India-Golf finder’?” ATC:“It’s a TCAS.” Anonymous Voice:“That’s called a ‘Foxtrot-India-Sierra-Hotel finder.'” Airline 312:“Yeah, but we’re over Kansas.” Lance S. Ferguson, M.D.Lexington, Kentucky

Heard this somewhere over Kansas:
Center:
"Airline 312, traffic. Eleven o'clock, three miles, FL 310 Citation, westbound."
Airline 312:
"We got `em on the pig finder."
N700AN:
"Kansas City Center, Cheyenne Zero Alpha November. Request."
Center:
"Go ahead."
N700AN:
"Was that a 'Papa-India-Golf finder'?"
ATC:
"It's a TCAS."
Anonymous Voice:
"That's called a 'Foxtrot-India-Sierra-Hotel finder.'"
Airline 312:
"Yeah, but we're over Kansas."
Lance S. Ferguson, M.D.
Lexington, Kentucky

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