"Ron Lee" wrote in message
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The thing that I find interesting (and I admit that I'm basing this on
only
100-ish hours of experience) is that the controllers at Luke AFB all sound
really, well, glad to have you in their airspace.

If you ever fly to Pueblo CO (KPUB) the controllers there (civilian ?)
are also nice and happy to have you there.

Ron Lee

Ron,

I didn't mean it to sound like I've never heard friendly civilian
controllers...they definately exisist too. My local Class D has them in
spades. I still get a little automatic smile whenever I hear one gentleman
in particular as he was on duty the day I solo'd and the day I came wobbling
back from my long solo XC. He gave me a "congrats" on both occasions.

I just thought the point of the earlier discussions was that it was unusual
for GA to be handled by military controllers. My point was that it happens
here when you are SW of Phoenix and they're really efficient, to the point
but polite, agreeable and (so far) never seem fazed by having Cessna's in
the mix.

Jay B