Wade Hasbrouck wrote:
And if "Arlington" refers to the fly-in at Arlington, Wa (AWO), that is an
airport that is normally untowered (I know some are trying to get away from
the term "uncontrolled"), but they have a "tower" for the fly-in, and that
tower won't refer to planes by "numbers" but as "Green and White Cessna on
Downwind", and heard that people get scolded for using their tailnumber on
the radio while trying to land there... Which may make sense, as they don't
have any radar at that airport, thus they wouldn't be receiving any
information from any transponders, and are just controlling aircraft by
looking to see who is in the pattern and who is nearby wanting to land...

Yeah, but having been one of four blue and white Cessnas in the pattern
I can tell you there are serious drawbacks to this system.