On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 01:05:27 GMT, "Dave Stadt"
wrote:


"Tom Fleischman" k wrote in
message
news:250320051938408267%bodhijunkoneeightyeightju ...
This was a new one for me.

I was IFR this afternoon out of HPN for short practice flight. I was in
sequence number two at the runway waiting for departure. As the tower
controller cleared the Cessna in front of me to position and hold, he
asked him his direction of flight. The Cessna pilot responded
"Northbound". The controller then instructed the Cessna to position 50
feet north on Rwy 34, and then he cleared me to position and hold
behind the Cessna. The Cessna was VFR. I questioned the clearance,
reminding him that there was an airplane on the runway in front of me.
He told me to position and hold behind the traffic. As I taxiied into
position, he cleared the Cessna for takeoff and as soon as the Cessna
broke ground he cleared me for takeoff. I was using a DP which includes
a turn to the left. The Cessna was instructed to turn out to the right.

I've been flying out of HPN since 1992 and I have never seen or heard
of anything like this being done there before, ever.

Did I miss something??

Never been to OSH eh? You get lined up six at a time.

Last time I took off on 18 at OSH (left side of centerline), I not
only passed the guy ahead of me, but I caught the next one just
beyond the end of the runway, made my left turn at 3000 and headed for
home.

Landing? Absolutely no place for a pilot who always flys a stabilized
pattern. I counted 25 between down wind, base and final. Of course
base and final are *short*. :-))

The 25 were all north of the control tower to the water tower, down
wind, base, and final.

That was the day the "Blue Bonanza" flew a regular pattern instead of
strictly adhering to the tower's instructions.

Blue Bonanza, put your gear down now... Blue Bonanza put your gear
down.... Blue Bonanza, turn base now.... Blue Bonanza turn base
NOW!... Blue...Bonanza...Turn...BASE... NOW...
Awhhhhh...Don't go clearrrr to the lake.

(I wish I had that one on tape)

He did, down wind to the lake, base and then final all the way from
the lake with IFR traffic coming in on the VOR 27.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com