interesting moment yesterday on final

Ya think? ALWAYS not know?

A little hyperbole to make a play with the wording of your original
statement. But I stand by the general statement. Most VFR pilots won't
know where RIKKI is.

Here's the call in the format specified in AC 90-42F:

"Houghton County traffic, Gulfstream one two three four alpha GALEY inbound
descending through two thousand five hundred ILS approach runway three one
Houghton County."

Should a typical VFR pilot know where the Gulfstream is?

In this case, the typical VFR pilot should know that an ILS is a
straight in approach. He may not know (or remember) that it is
typically a three degree glide slope, an that at 2500 feet that would
put him at ... let me see (pulls out the calculator... half a mile over
sin of three degrees, ten miles out. Is that right? Oh yeah... that's
2500 MSL, not AGL (or above ARP). Airport's a thousand feet up, so cut
it in half. Maybe five or seven miles out?

In any case, the VFR pilot should know to look for a gulfstream on long
final. Gulfstreams are fast, so however far it is, it's closer already.

What about this one?

"Hammonton traffic, Gulfstream one two three four alpha DORTH inbound
descending through one thousand seven hundred VOR Bravo approach runway
three Hammonton."

http://www.airnav.com/airport/N81

Should a typical VFR pilot know where the Gulfstream is?

Jose
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