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A small plane with the callsign “Focus one” circles in a holding pattern over SIERRA on approx. 10’000ft in LSZH TMA sector.

ATC transcript (Zurich Tower / LSZH TWR):
[27032013 22:18:06 UTC]

Source: LiveATC

FOCUS1: Zurich tower guete n’Abig (good evening) [unreadable]
LSZH TWR (Sarah): Focus one Zurich tower, grüezi, I read you very weak, in case ehm you have a phone number if you need to call us I don’t read you. – Confirm
FOCUS1: [unreadable] … call you back

(…)

FOCUS1: Zurich tower Focus one … [unreadable]
LSZH TWR: Focus one roger report mission completed

(…)

LSZH TWR: Focus one tower
FOCUS1: Will call you back when mission completed, Focus one
LSZH TWR: Roger

[27032013 22:39:44 UTC]

Source: LiveATC

FOCUS1: Focus one, mission city (?) completed (…) descend to 5000ft to remain out of your airospace
LSZH TWR: Focus one descend approved there is no traffic below
FOCUS1: Leaving 10’000ft descending 5000ft remaining outside keep (…) QNA(?) Focus one
LSZH TWR: Thank you very much, wünsch ihne e gueti Nacht wänn sy dänn fertig sind, ade
FOCUS1: Merci and contact 128.050?
LSZH TWR: I will call them first and in about two to three minutes you can call them
FOCUS1: (…)

[27032013 22:42:47 UTC]

Source: LiveATC

FOCUS1: Zurich tower Focus one … [unreadable] … frequency … (?)
LSZH TWR: Heli (?) Focus one you may contact 128.050 guet Nacht
FOCUS1: Roger guet Nacht, Focus one

Listen to this radio conversation between Pilot Clarence, Co-Pilot Roger, Navigator Victor and the ATC station.
Source: Airplane! (1980)

ATC: “209 You are cleared for take off”
Clarence: “Roger”
Roger: “Huh?”
ATC: “L.A. departure frequency 123.9″
Clarence: “Roger”
Roger: “Huh?”
Victor: “Request Vector, over”
Clarence: “What?”
ATC: “Flight 209 cleared for vector 324″
Roger: “We have clearance, Clarence”
Clarence: “Roger, Roger. What is our vector, Victor?”
Victor: “LA radio clearance, over”
Clarence: “That’s Clarence, over. Over”
Victor: “Roger”
Roger: “Huh?”
ATC: “Roger, over”
Roger: “What? – Huh? – Who?”

ATC conversation between LSZH Tower and SWR674H (23rd December 2012 12:09 UTC), one day before Christmas:

[23DEC2012 1209Z]
LSZH TWR: Swiss 6-7-4 HOTEL contact departure. – Ade.
SWR674H: Contacting Departure, Swiss 6-7-4 HOTEL. – Tschüss Huggi, guete Dienscht!
LSZH TWR: Tschau Roger, Dir au und schöni, frohsinnigi Oschtere! (Engl: Happy Easter!)
SWR674H: Genau, wünschi au, tschüss!
LSZH TWR: Tschau.

SWR674H (23rd December 2012): Flight route recording
Source: LiveATC

20120526 0938 UTC: Tonight there was an ELT signal on 121.500 Mhz around 3.7nm on final approach to rwy 34. – Maybe a glider in LSZK, which hit the runway hardly? Or a test ELT?

Source: LiveATC

This is how an ELT sounds like:

ATC conversation between LSZH Tower and OLT 277 (25th of May 2012 2126 UTC) cut-together:

[20120523 2126Z]
OLT277: Tower good evening OLTRA 277 [taxiway] KILO [runway] 28
LSZH TWR: Grüezi OLTRA 277 tower lineup and wait runway 32
OLT277: Lineup and wait runway 32 OLTRA 277

[20120523 2127Z]
LSZH TWR: OLTRA 277 winds 340 degrees 2 knots runway 32 cleared for takeoff
OLT277: cleared for takeoff runway 32 OLTRA 277

[20120523 2129Z]
LSZH TWR: OLTRA 277 confirm passing 3000 feet.
OLT277: affirm OLTRA 277
LSZH TWR: Danke identified remain on my frequency climb flightlevel 120
OLT277: Level 120 [OLTRA] 277 und vielen Dank, dass das auch so schnell ging
LSZH TWR: Ja ansonsten hätten wir Sie zum Kaffee eingeladen hier oben
OLT277: Das nächste Mal, danke

[20120523 2131Z]
LSZH TWR: OLTRA 277 when passing FL80 proceed direct ALAGO
OLT277: when passing [FL] 80 direct ALAGO OLTRA 277

[20120523 2132Z]
LSZH TWR: OLTRA 277 contact swissradar on 133.9 Schönen Heimflug
OLT277: Ok, danke 133.9 OLTRA 277 Schönen Dank nochmal

OLT277 (23. May 2012): Flight route recording
Source: LiveATC

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