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Short Final: Niner-Niner

Scanner chatter heard near Wisconsin Dells: “Madison Approach, Cirrus one-niner-niner-Echo-Echo checking in at 5,000.” [Scanner can’t pick up Approach, but controller apparently gave the altimeter setting at the Dells.] Cirrus…

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Scanner chatter heard near Wisconsin Dells:

“Madison Approach, Cirrus one-niner-niner-Echo-Echo checking in at 5,000.”

[Scanner can’t pick up Approach, but controller apparently gave the altimeter setting at the Dells.]

Cirrus pilot says with a straight face, or so it would seem: “Two-niner-niner-niner for niner-niner-Echo-Echo.”

Tom Enwright

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