Least favorite ATC instructions... ... ...

As a student pilot still preping for my first cross-country and concerned I
might make a wrong turn, This one tops my list:

"Gelöscht, um Laufbahn 24 zu landen"



Jeff


(used an online translator, dunno if it did it right )

I did an approach into HWD right after getting my IFR ticket.
I got a popup clearance a while out in VMC while I was under
the hood and my friend being the safety pilot. While on the
approach, at some point we went into IMC and broke
out at about 700 feet AGL. The original plan was to fly
down to minimums and then fly back to SQL VFR. Well
I had to land since VFR wasn't possible and the guy in the
tower kindly got a pop up (?) IFR clearance back to SQL.
(a popup is usually from the air although i guess you can get
them on the ground). Anyway he read the clearance back something
like....

"Cherokee N12345, stay on present squawk, climb 2000, cleared
to SQL, right turn 090 on departure."

I started to read it back but was obviously confused as I tried
putting everything in order as I
was reading back in the usual CRATE sequence. Note, he didn't even
give me a departure frequency.

He replied, "Uh, ok, stupid me. Let me try it so even I can
understand it."

Gerald

Heard from Houston TRACON while in the clouds after departing on a void
time clearance:

"Maintain VFR..."

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Mt favorite:

"Rocket Flight, cleared for the break; Cherokee 12345 expedite clearing
runway, flight of four behind you; Cessna 3456 enter downwind behind
flight of our coming into the break; expedite, another flight of four
will break behind you."

This is typical at Titusville (TIX) on a Saturday morning.

Least favorite:
Tower chewing somebody out when I am on final and #2 or #3 in my flight
with wingman on the runway. I can't get a word in edgewise to clear
wingman to cross and exit, so I have to go around.

--
Remve "_" from email to reply to me personally.

In a previous article, Ken Reed said:
My top three a

My top one is "Cleared to land on the green dot, welcome to Oshkosh".


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Never meddle in the affairs of NT. It is slow to boot and quick to crash.
-- Stephen Harris

Heard at Oshkosh:

All landing traffic, please look at your magnetic compass. If it says 9,
break off. We are landing on 27.


"caleb" wrote in message
oups.com...
My top three a

1) "TAKE IMMEDIATE EVASIVE ACTION!"

2) "Execute Published Missed Approach WITH OUT DELAY, and hold at the
outer marker"

and as Ben Jackson said:

3) "cleared to land on any runway"

(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

My top one is "Cleared to land on the green dot, welcome to Oshkosh".



Folks, we have a winner....

caleb wrote:
My top three a

1) "TAKE IMMEDIATE EVASIVE ACTION!"

2) "Execute Published Missed Approach WITH OUT DELAY, and hold at the
outer marker"

and as Ben Jackson said:

3) "cleared to land on any runway"


I had that #3 one once .. after I told them I had smoke in the
cockpit and needed to be thinking about being back on the ground.

"John Clear" wrote in message
...
In article .com,
caleb wrote:

4) "I have a phone number for you to call after you land. Advise when
ready to copy."

That would be my least favorite. Haven't had the pleasure however. My next
least favorite is to be anywhere in the LA basin and hear (without
requesting it) "Flight following terminated, squawk VFR. Good-day".

Howard

--
John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/

Happens without fail when approaching the VFR corridor south of
Chicago, just when you'd really like to have FF.