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ATC question
A question for Stephen, Newps or other folks knowledgeable in the finer points of ATC. A friend of mine flew into Reading, PA last week with another pilot. Since Reading is a class D airport with no TRSA, but with radar approach control, they elected to simply call tower directly 6 or so miles out. My friend said that the controller was quite nasty and told them they had to contact approach first if they wanted to land. By then they were even closer in, but they called approach who "informed" them gruffly that they were now 4 miles from the airport and needed to contact tower "immediately." They then called tower and landed. My friend is a new private pilot (last December) and both he and the person flying (a pretty experienced pilot, I believe) were rather taken aback by this. What authority does a class D tower have to refuse entry to an airplane that hasn't called approach control? Even a TRSA is voluntary, so I can't imagine that a non-TRSA, non-class B, non-class C airport can mandate use of approach control. Is there some new regulation that I've missed? Matt |
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