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Thanks Peter... I sure hope so.... and yes, much was learned...
Jon Kraus PP-ASEL Student-IA "Peter R." wrote: Jon Kraus wrote: snip My instructor didn't know what to say except to point out that I was so far behind the plane that if we were a minimums I never would have been able to make the approach. I really didn't know what to say except for I'll do better next time. All I could do on the ride hope is get a good laugh from my stupidity. I have had so much on my mind that I probably shouldn't have been flying. Not IFR any way's. As you undoubtedly know, the absolute best time to make that kind of mistake is with your instructor or safety pilot. That lesson served multiple purposes. -- Peter |
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Roy Smith wrote in message ... "Guy Elden Jr." wrote: ignore ATC when they "complain" that you should be able to read their minds. Yeah. I had a bizarre experience just the other day. We were doing a left downwind departure from Morristown NJ's runway 23 and I wanted to get back to White Plains as efficiently as possible. For those not familiar with the area, it's very congested airspace, with Morristown and Caldwell's Class D's abutting, Teterboro's Class D right next door, and all of this under the shelf of New York's Class B. GPS gave me a bearing to White Plains and Morristown tower let us leave the frequency as soon as we broke ground. I called up NY Approach and requested "Class Bravo clearance, heading 080, direct White Plains". The controller gave us a squawk and instructed us to "remain below the floor of the class bravo, and clear of Caldwell's airspace". A quick glance at the chart showed that we could do all that by squeaking between Caldwell and Teterboro, almost exactly in the direction we wanted to go. So we started to do that. Not long after, the controler was back, yelling at us to head north-west (about 120 degrees off our on-course heading), and ranting about how we needed to stay out of the arrival path, blah, blah. Clearly he felt we had disregarded his instructions. The problem is, what he really wanted us to do was stay clear of CDW's airspace to the west. All he *told* us to do was to stay clear of it, and we were doing that by going east of it. What was I supposed to do, read his mind? At what altitude were you intending to skirt east of CDW? Isn't the Class B floor 1800 there? |
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"John Clonts" wrote:
At what altitude were you intending to skirt east of CDW? Isn't the Class B floor 1800 there? I think you answered your own question, no? |
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On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:10:27 -0500, "Dan Luke"
wrote: The interesting thing is BHM's comment that I "...should have asked Montgomery for that one." How was I to know that? BHM is named on plates as the approach facility for EET. There's no ATIS at EET. What should I have done to find out that BHM couldn't give me the RNAV 33 approach? No, I don't think so. I tried that once flying down to LA (actually John Wayne/Orange Cty), thinking that it would be nice to get a certain approach since I felt I was quite close, but they didn't care for it. Little did I know I was going to be vectored around and handed over three more times within the LA sector, so there was no way to know when to request a certain approach. It was IMC at that time, and considering the volume of traffic at Orange Cty it would have been moot anyway. |
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Dan:
I see you fly out of BFM. Do you know Bobby Mooring the mixmaster mosquito abatement man & resident flying instructor at BFM? I was wonder how he is doing these days. I think he calls himself Azalea Air... When you get a chance you might want to fly up to Monroeville for your $100 hamburger and and ask if Harper Lee (Author of To Kill a Mockingbird) is still signing copies of her book. One of her relatives runs the FBO there and in the past was able to get pilots who dropped in signed copies of her books...Never know, it might be worth something someday...I got me one last time I was up there. Greg Arnold -- I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die. -Richard Bach "Dan Luke" wrote in message ... Another one of those things I guess I should have been ready for sneaked up on me this morning. We were going from BFM to EET (Shelby County Airport, Alabaster, Alabama) and the ceiling was right at minimums for the RNAV 33 approach, and below minimums for the VOR-A. Naturally, I wanted the RNAV 33. There's no ATIS at EET, so no particular approach was being advertised. When Montgomery approach handed us off to Birmingham, BHM approach told me to expect the VOR-A. I asked him "...any chance we can do the RNAV 33?" "Nope. It's not in my airspace. You should have asked Montgomery for that one. Standy by and I'll see if they'll take you back." We got handed back to MGM, but by the time MGM was ready for us, we were right on top of the IAF (IXUSE) and 1,900' high. Not a serious problem, really, because by then I had slowed to 90 kts, but it made the first part of the approach more rushed than it needed to be. Nevertheless, we made it in just under the cloud deck The interesting thing is BHM's comment that I "...should have asked Montgomery for that one." How was I to know that? BHM is named on plates as the approach facility for EET. There's no ATIS at EET. What should I have done to find out that BHM couldn't give me the RNAV 33 approach? -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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"gpa" wrote:
I see you fly out of BFM. Do you know Bobby Mooring the mixmaster mosquito abatement man & resident flying instructor at BFM? I was wonder how he is doing these days. I think he calls himself Azalea Air... Yep, I know Bobby well - he owns the other 172RG on the field. He gave me my BFR-before-last. He's the local FAA Safety Counsellor. Bobby seems to be doing fine. When you get a chance you might want to fly up to Monroeville for your $100 hamburger and and ask if Harper Lee (Author of To Kill a Mockingbird) is still signing copies of her book. One of her relatives runs the FBO there and in the past was able to get pilots who dropped in signed copies of her books...Never know, it might be worth something someday...I got me one last time I was up there. Love the book, but I only have a worn out paperback. It would be a thrill to find a hard cover copy and fly it up there for her to sign. Like most pilots who trained around Mobile, I've been to MVC many times. -- Dan C172RG at BFM |
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