Jack Cunniff wrote:
Learning at an airport in a Class E airspace (which we call a UNICOM
field, because it doesn't have a tower) has the advantage of doing more
flying and less talking on the radio.

I'm not so sure about this. I fly out of a towered (Class D) field, and I
find I spend *less* time on the radio there than I do at untowered fields.
It took me a while to get used to talking on the CTAF, because there are
so many more calls to make.

I did some pattern work tonight -- 17 times around. I probably had about
22 transmissions. At an untowered field, it'd have been over 70 to do the
same work.

.... Alan

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Alan Gerber
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