Wow - heard on the air... (long)

wrote:

Here in southern CT I've heard some exchanges with NY Approach (don't
recall if the acft in question was trying to get into JFK or LGA) that
just had me shaking my head. Personally I'd never fly into a Class B
airport in something slow, but I know guys that have with varying
degress of success (measured by the controller's level of
exasperation). The airspace just south of here is too damn busy to
accommodate newbies or most weekend flyers safely.

Will


I flew my 182 into Logan, Philly, Washington National and a few other
fairly busy airports. They had no problem at all handling me with the
jets. They usually brought me in on a close-in pattern and I landed on
a runway other than what the airliners were using. I don't have any
problem with a little crosswind and it worked out great.

Now taxiing is a whole 'nother adventure at airports like that... :-)


Matt

I flew my 182 into Logan, Philly, Washington National and a few other
fairly busy airports. They had no problem at all handling me with the
jets. They usually brought me in on a close-in pattern and I landed on
a runway other than what the airliners were using. I don't have any
problem with a little crosswind and it worked out great.

I flew into LAS after 160 hours TT and no IFR (now I got it) about
a year ago. It was no big deal at all. They asked me a few
times if I really meant LAS versus North Las Vegas but no big
deal. It was a quiet night though. Going out, again no big deal
even though they had be departing in the middle of 5 HP A320's, 4 SW
737's, a CO 757 and a few corporate jets and I was in a bug smashing
'PA-28-181 Heavy.'

Now taxiing is a whole 'nother adventure at airports like that... :-)

I didn't have to go far at LAS. But today I was flying out of
Denver on United and I couldn't even follow the calls....actually
some of them I could but man, that sounds complicated.

gerald