Request for amended flight level

[Virago]

A trainee air traffic controller was receiving some "on the job" training at a military airfield in the States when an SR-71 Blackbird called up requesting a flight level change. The conversation went something like this:

 

Pilot: SR-71 requesting amended flight level 750.

 

Trainee ATC: SR-71, cleared to amended flight level 750 ... if you think you can get up there!

 

Pilot: Roger, SR-71 left flight level 850 for 750!

 

 

[Tomo]

I've heard the one of a student in a C152 requesting flight level 1500... controller tells him to contact Houston Space Centre on ###