flibmeister
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Well, there may be a few people that have corrupted the term since I first heard it in 1974, but I've never met one. In retirement, I've worked a couple of dozen shows in Arizona and Colorado as air boss-- and the controller crews at those events use the term exactly as every other controller I know has for the last 40 years.
Not that controllers don't sometimes use disparaging terms to describe pilots they think deserve it; they do, of course. But in my experience, it's usually "idiot", "a-hole", "knucklehead", etc.-- and definitely not specific to the size of the aircraft or method of propulsion. :wink2:
Not that controllers don't sometimes use disparaging terms to describe pilots they think deserve it; they do, of course. But in my experience, it's usually "idiot", "a-hole", "knucklehead", etc.-- and definitely not specific to the size of the aircraft or method of propulsion. :wink2: