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Some examples from "Say heading"

The size counts
 

A short while after landing at a big airport in his Cessna 150, our hero strolls into the busy airport cafeteria for a bite to eat. He finds an empty table by the window to keep an eye on the airport comings and goings. Shortly thereafter, a strikingly beautiful woman walks up and asks to share his table. Naturally, he invites her to sit down.

After several minutes of small talk, the woman asks if he is a pilot. He responds, “Why, yes, I am -- I fly a C-150.” Knowing next to nothing about airplanes, she asks him what a C-150 is. The pilot looks out the window and spots a C-130 Hercules taxiing out for takeoff.

Pointing to it, he tells his companion, “See that plane over there? That is a C-130. I fly a C-150!”

ATC
 

Approach: Beech 998, you're showing two thousand feet and intermittent Mode C. Say altitude.

Beech 998: Beech 998 is intermittently at two thousand feet.

ATC: N234, descend to 3,000' on QNH 1019.

N234: Could you give that to me in inches?

ATC: N234, descend to 36,000 inches on QNH 1019

Female Radar controller: Can I turn you on at 7 miles

Airline captain: Madam, you can try

Pilot: Tower, please call me a fuel truck

Tower: Roger, you are a fuel truck