ARE RAMP CHECKS RAMPING UP?

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:18:06 -0600, "Montblack"
wrote:

("Mike Weller" wrote)
[From and earlier post]
I'm going to post another story about a flight I had to take with them
(one). He asked to land the airplane after a check ride and he did but...

Mike Weller

PS. there are four that were remarkable.


Ready for the stories when you are. :-)


Montblack

Ok,

Number One, out of more than four. The statutes of limitation have
passed.

The FSDO at Birmingham had a rule that the airport had to be at better
than "twice minimums" for us to take the check ride. I'm not sure why,
but Birmingham has always been a "funny" place to fly into. I knew at
the time that it was a training spot for new air traffic controllers
and that didn't bother them or me.

Well, the weather was sort of "really funny" that day. They cleared
me for a visual, and I thought that I had the airport in sight. After
all, I was going there to take a check ride, and I was praying that
the weather would be OK.

About that time the controller came back and said to me, "Hey look out
there!" A DC-8 busted through the clouds right ahead of me.

And I really didn't know what to do except to report that the airport
was in sight. It didn't seem to be the time to tell them that a
shopping center's access road wasn't really the airport.

You don't just show up at the FSDO with an appointment to see an
Inspector do you?

I'll continue this later, but the phone just rang.

Mike Weller