This day will ever be the one people either remember for peace breaking out in the Middle East, or for me starting a new catamaran.
This is Tel Aviv airport, a place I once flew to from Istanbul... tell us a story, tell us a story!
Well Turkish ATC don't talk to Greek ATC and so on 'Box 2' you'd give the latter advance notice prior entering their airspace; afterward returning that radio set to 121.50 (the international distress frequency) with headsets off and speakers up.
As we awaited handover from Greek ATC to Israeli, I hear over that radio someone saying "Aircraft at 35,000 feet, identify yourself" and peering over the newspaper I couldn't help noticing from the altimeter that we too were at 35,000 feet.
Been a while since I dropped a newspaper quite so quickly.
One air force ~ and no prizes for guessing which ~ used airliners to sneak around undetected by flying just below them, the primary radar return masked by the bulk of the larger aircraft.
