Overheard on the airwaves, somewhere, sometime … maybe:
Air Traffic Controller: “Cessna 1234X, say position.”
Student Pilot [on first solo cross-country]: “I’m, ahhhh, approaching the XYZ VOR.”
Air Traffic Controller (after a brief slow burn): “You’ve been approaching the XYZ VOR since you took off. Can you be more specific?”
Must be a “gamer”. At least he playing the ultimate video game, learning to fly.
DME was great.
After “You’ve been approaching the XYZ VOR since you took off. Can you be more specific?”, I could say; “I’ll be there in about 17 minutes…?”.
sitting, fully upright, in the left side pilot’s seat
If you’d ask most IFR pilots and 99.9% of jet jocks their position, all they could tell you is distance from their destination or next waypoint in the box.😳
What more do you need?
Reminds me of the legendary exchange between a lost low time pilot and ATC. After much back and forth ATC asked where the last position they were sure of was.
The response “Holding short runway 12”