Flown to an airshow's closed airport?
Have you ever flown to an airshow and yet couldn't land at the field
because it was closed?
Ricky
Yup. We were well before the announced closing time - but they ran out
of parking! (or so they said). OTOH we were directed to another
airport not far away, and they provided
a shuttle bus. So it was a minor inconvenience - and I didn't miss a
thing. This was at Chino, CA quite a few years ago.
On another occasion the airport wasn't closed - but there was a
definite communications problem. I started listening on the temporary
tower frequency about 30 miles away - and
heard a mess. There was all sorts of whining about not getting answers
from the tower. Oh S##t I thought - here we go again (been there, done
that before). But I continued on in -
to find, when I got there "nothing". I saw one plane landing and
otherwise a clear sky. I called the tower, got my clearance, and
landed - no drama at all. What I knew (and the others
did not) was that these folks seem to use a wet noodle for an antenna.
I had to manually break the squelch to hear them. Dunno if the howling
mob got it sorted out and landed -
or decided to go away - before my arrival.
Dave
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