A pilot is flying a small single engine plane with a lot of really important execs on board into Seattle airport. There is fog so thick that visibility is 10m, and his instruments are out. He circles looking for a landmark and after an hour, he is low on fuel and his passengers are very nervous.

At last, through a small opening in the fog he sees a tall building with one guy working alone on the fifth floor.

Circling, the pilot banks and shouts through his open window: "Hi, where am I?"

The solitary office worker replies: "You're in an airplane."

The pilot executes a swift 275 degree turn and executes a perfect blind landing on the runway five miles away. Just as the plane stops, the engines cough and die from lack of fuel. The stunned passengers asked the pilot how he did it.

"Simple," replies the pilot, "I asked the guy in that building a simple question. The answer he gave me was 100 percent correct but absolutely useless; therefore, that must be Microsoft's support office, and from there, the airport is just 5 miles away on a bearing of 87 degrees!"

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The pilot of a small aircraft was trying to land at the Redmond, WA airport.

It was terribly foggy and he could not see the ground or the runway; and he did not have the instruments to make a non-visual landing.

As he was flying through the fog, trying to find the airport, he flew past a tall building and saw a man standing in front of an open window.

"Where am I?", he yelled to the man.

"In an airplane," the man replied.

The pilot immediatly turned the plane, and made a perfect landing at the airport. One of the passengers asked the pilot how he had found the runway when he couldn't see the ground through the fog.

"The answer the man in the window gave me was 100% accurate, but totally useless" he replied. "So I knew that building had to be Microsoft technical support. And I knew Microsoft technical support was exactly 1/2 SSW of the airport."

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A helicopter was flying around above Seattle yesterday when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment. The pilot was now unable to determine the helicopter's position and course to steer to the airport.

He saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, drew a handwritten sign, and held it against the helicopter's window. The pilot's sign said "WHERE AM I?" in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, by drawing a large sign and holding it up in the building window. Their sign said "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER."

The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to the Seattle airport, and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the co-pilot asked the pilot how that sign helped determine their position.

The pilot responded, "I knew that had to be the MICROSOFT building in Redmond, because they gave me a technically correct, but completely useless answer."

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