Air Margaritaville

See this?

This is a flight strip.  In the past, air traffic controllers used them to keep track of the airplanes coming into their care.  They don’t use them much anymore.  Most air traffic facilities are entirely computer-based, rendering the flight strips obsolete.  There’s really no reason to print them out anymore, unless a controller wants to ask a question, clarify some flight information, or TAKE THE STRIP HOME TO HIS WIFE TO PROVE THAT HE FREAKING WORKED JIMMY BUFFETT’S FREAKING AIRPLANE.

A while ago, I told Josh The Pilot to watch for airplanes with tail numbers ending in “JB,” as an even more terrifying Buffett-stalker than I has cataloged all of his aircraft.  Because whenever I sit back with a couple minutes of “Boat Drinks,” all I’m thinking is, “What’s the engine thrust on Jimmy’s Dassault Falcon 900B?”

Josh The Pilot did not speak to the pilot of N908JB, but Jimmy did not crash into any other airplanes, even Captain Sully’s, which Josh’s sector also worked last week.  So between Josh working Buffett’s airplane, but not talking to him, and me being like ten feet away from Jimmy while bodyguarding his dressing room for one concert but also not talking to him, we have… we have… we have a flight strip.

Awesome.

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