Flying to Teterboro

"vincent p. norris" wrote:

When his error was discovered, the Tower came on the radio saying
something like "GET OUT OF MY AIRSPACE! GET OUT! NOW! AND DON'T
COME BACK TILL I GIVE YOU PERMISSION!"

Yep, I believe it. One late Sunday night in 2004 during my weekly commute
into TEB, an apparently unfamiliar VFR pilot ahead of me who had been
cleared to land on 19 mistakenly turned base for 24. I had just crossed
over the airport to the east to enter a left downwind for 19 when the tower
controller, who had spotted the error, came on and berated the pilot for
mistaking 24 for 19.

The controller, though, allowed the pilot to continue and cleared him to
land on 24 ahead of me, which meant that he would be descending right in
front of me right to left. However, the pilot of the Cessna compounded
the problem by really slowing it up on final and I ended up passing high in
front of him (with him in sight) for the base leg of 19 in my Bonanza.

At that point the controller had had enough of his antics and ordered the
Cessna to go around using a few colorful, non-standard words.

--
Peter