Switching to ground....

Flew into BED a few years ago, seems they have a problem remembering who
is where. I was on a short final after they forgot about me, 1/2 mile
out and they cleared the AC behind me to land before clearing me. My
thought is whether this is an FAA training sight. Yes they are busy but
not that busy they should not have Control of the situation. Later when
we left, I asked for a straight out, keep the nose down got the speed up
and got away from them as soon as possible.

Ron Gardner

David Rind wrote:

I landed at BED a couple of days ago, and as I was rolling out
the controllers switched, so I never got the usual instruction
to "turn off at Golf, ground .7". Since Golf was the first
taxiway to turn off on anyway, I made the turn off.

Tower was now so busy (common at BED) that I could not get a word
in on the frequency. With the controller switch, I had clearly
been forgotten -- the new controller told someone else to turn off
on Golf before noticing that I was there, not moving. After
probably 60-90 seconds the frequency was clear enough for me to
ask whether she wanted me over on Ground.

At the time, and in retrospect, I think my choice to stay on
Tower frequency was correct under the regs, but silly -- that
I should have just contacted Ground and told them I was switching
over since I was sure Tower really wanted me on Ground but had
forgotten me.

I'm wondering if anyone disagrees and thinks the right thing to
do was what I actually did -- stay with the Tower until I could
get permission to change to Ground.

--
David Rind