"Ron Natalie" wrote in message m...
:
: The day of the accident, guys that were ignoring instructions by coming
: up the tracks from Ripon were being cleared to land -- while dozens of
: guys (who were following the instructions) were holding endlessly
: around Rush and Green lakes.
:
: One year we were just rolling out on 36 after doing the whole RIPON
: thing when some clown showed up in a Bonanza calling the tower on
: 3 mile final, totally clueless about the whole RIPON thing (or the
: general concept of class D airspace). I suspect the tower figured
: it was less safety impact to just let them land than having them
: turn around in face of all the other arrivals and cleared them to
: land on runway 36L (which is the only runway 36 most times of year).
: The bo pilot asked which one 36 was...there was a rather condescending
: "It's the one with the big numbers and the dotted line down the
: middle."
:
: (Of course, I was standing on taxiway Papa when a plane landed there
: one year as well).


Folks on instrument flight plans come in that way when they are handed off from approach - don't know if that is the
case here...