Show PILOT MOT SINGS COMES 0 ORDER 1 1 ader PIPE DOWN if plane broadcasts broadcast entertain short wa vave ve radio owners chicago owners of short wave radio sets seti who have heard amusing things s gain coins on in the ether during the early hours of the morning are to have much of their enjoyment cut curtailed as airline officials have instructed their pilots to confine their broadcasting to routine matters during the still night lonely air mall mail pilots flying high above an almost I 1 invisible nv isible earth have no company but the microphones ot of their two way any radio telephone sets bets and they have been wont to drift into I 1 song or carry on conversations with other pilots flying miles away heber sillier miller who bo flies between seattle and bl edford ore tried tits his voice on life Is just a bowl of cherries recently at 2 a m one clear night tie he got a stack of tan fan mall the following day that would hale bae been envied by a professional crooner pacific coast listening in AT al gilhousen and ralph virden talking over the good old days one early morning while flying miles apart along the west coast learned later that apparently most of the pacific coast had been listening to their reminiscences and so the orders to pipe domn have gone out many interesting stories however are told of some of the broadcasts one mall pilot for instance got vexed with threatening weather one early and spoke about it in no uncertain terms too late he realized that his microphone had been snatched snitched snit ched ed on and his big remarks intended only for a dark cloud bank had been carried far and wide lie ile did the only thin thing he be could think of broadcast aai a rather profuse apology and then he lapsed into a silence that lie he now breaks only tor for the short reports the pilots make every 20 minutes to ground stations along their routes gosh a good SUIT stiff drink of whisky be swell on a mornin morning glike like this was the contribution of another unknown pilot to the lore of early morning reflection As a rule these remarks are noted for their scarcity heard many miles an interesting phenomenon that arises to disturb the radio reports of the pilots la Is skip distance a peculiarity culi cul arity larity of short wave sets the pilot I 1 of a night mall mail plane flying fling from i new york to chicago recently found that the ground station at chicago airport could not hear bear his big calls while the station at fort worth 1000 miles away reported fine reception his message and the answer were relayed through the fort worth station another pilot flying over redding Eed ding calif was heard at des moines iowa while tits his dispatcher tit at oakland only miles away could not hear him at all provision Is made to counteract these unusual conditions by having the reporting pilots covered not only by their home station but by all other stations which are situated at intervals of miles along the airways thus when a pilot la Is not heard by his dispatching station the message Is rr reamed ayed to that station by a distant sta station ticia that has heard beard it distinctly the answer flies back via the relay |