Short Final

Each week in “Short Final,” we select the strangest, funniest, or most unusual thing AVweb readers have heard over the radio — either from other pilots or coming directly from the Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower. Click through to listen in on this week’s winner.

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
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