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- Apr 15, 2008
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- Location
- California Delta
- Vessel Name
- FlyWright
- Vessel Make
- 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
I have 18,000 hours and have flown jets all over the world and never encountered a phantom controller. I have been shot at and been illuminated by lasers, but never given bogus instructions by a phantom controller. I have been given bad instructions by real controllers...but that is a whole other subject.
They're rare, but it sometimes happens. We had a case south of Scottsdale Airport near PHX where a disgruntled resident would transmit commands to aircraft inbound from the south. He was never caught to my recollection, but we looked for him. I was there for one of the transmissions, but he then went silent.
Bad instructions from a real AT controller? Never happens, right? (JK, used to be one myself.)