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My second most-favorite thing I ever heard on the radio while flying: I'm VFR, enroute from Paine Field (Everett, WA, north of Seattle) to Sandpoint, ID. Sandpoint is a fairly small airport in northern Idaho, surrounded by lots of hills, with a fairly long VOR non-precision IFR approach...

Flying in a C172, shortly after entering the controlled airspace for Seattle Center, checking in and changing to Center's frequency, I hear the following from ATC to an Alaska Airlines pilot. ATC: "Alaska flight XXX, traffic ahead and to your left climbing through 5,000 feet is a Southwest...