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• Scenario: Crystal clear CAVU moonless night, following the northern shore of Lake Ontario back from Hamilton to Toronto.
  I wanted to get fairly high to get the carpet-of-lights effect for my passenger....
• This was at SBN (South Bend, Indiana); I was getting ready to depart IFR for Oshkosh in a Cessna Cardinal RG.
  Me: Oshkosh ground, Cessna 1546 Hotel at the ramp, taxi IFR Oshkosh....
• What...is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
• Heard in the Bay Area yesterday: BB: "Barnburner 123, Request 8300 feet.
  Bay Approach: "Barnburner 123, say reason for requested altitude....
• A tower controller at a nameless airport in the southeast had a reputation for screwing up the most routine things.
  .. Me: xxxxx ground, Tiger 45210, South ramp, taxi, VFR to Charlotte 5500'....
• Many* commercial aircraft are stacked up waiting for approach to O'Hare Int'l, ATC has inflicted numerous delays, and some planes are already 1-2 hours late.
  The WX is good, it's just that there is a traffic bottleneck somewhere....
• This story was told to me by a friend who "swore" he heard it on an IFR flight in Germany.
  It seems a "good ol' boy" American (Texas-sounding) AF C-130 reserve pilot was in the (that day very crowded) instrument pattern for landing at Rhein-Main....
• This story is TRUE: told by the pilot and confirmed by ATC.
  Southend ATC: National 676 - Cleared for takeoff...