On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:52:36 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
No, of course not. I'm not saying he did anything wrong. I was just using
this as a real-life example of why "the active" is a meaningless term at an
uncontrolled airport.

Awh, I'm just razzing ya' a bit... grin

I've had people announce that they were departing 27 when I was on
final to 09 even though I'm coming in behind someone else who just
landed on 09... When you have a crosswind runway, either one is
probably about the same given that the winds around here are usually
either directly out of the south or *sometimes* directly out of the
north... Hell, I flunked by first checkride for my PPL because I
crabbed into a nonexistant crosswind and landed with my nosewheel 3 ft
off the centerline (of the 100 ft wide runway)... In all my flying at
that airport, I had *never* encountered wind directly straight down
the runway and it just so happened that it was that way on my
checkride...