Want to meet a flight instructor?

Slick Goodlin · Mon Sep 21, 2015 5:50 pm

Show up NORDO at his airfield!

Colonel · Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:42 am

What's wrong with NORDO at an uncontrolled
airport? Lots of airplanes that I fly don't have
electrical systems, let alone radios. And with
open cockpit, good luck hearing the radio, let
alone talk on it with all that wind noise on the
mike.

I am suspecting I am a BAD PERSON again.

Class 4 Superstar · Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:32 am

Hey guys, awhile ago I had words with a pilot who arrived NORDO. It wasn't that he didn't have radio it was the fact that he was taking on the frequency that was changed 5 years ago ::) and landed in the opposite direction to the runway that my student was doing circuits on. >:(

He was flying one of those old tailwheel airplanes, but to me he was just being an asshole.

Does that make me a Bad Person ?

Colonel · Tue Sep 22, 2015 8:45 am

he was just being an asshole

Sounds like an AvCan Moderator. You were lucky
he kept it on the runway.

Try to be nice and tolerate him. He's probably
just doing the best he can. Not everyone has
the skills of an FTU instructor.

Rookie Pilot · Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:13 pm

....or meet a patronizing type FSS briefer.

Seems to be the odd one that thinks filing a single engine flight plan to Northern Ontario -- is akeen to filing to the moon as is such a rare event, and all kinds of commentary and dire warnings about possible puffs of wind must accompany my simple NOTAM requests. All I need, sir.

Next time just shut up and let me file....please......

If I wanted counsel, advice and handholding as a pilot, I surely ain't getting it from most at FSS. A few are good, though.

David MacRay · Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:01 pm

FSS? They closed most of them out west. They were good for guys like me that did not lurn enough met at ground school. There was a local guy with nice drawings to explain what would probably happen in the next 6 hours. They were usually pretty close to correct.

mmm...bacon · Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:49 pm

Slick Goodlin wrote: Show up NORDO at his airfield!

Class 4 Superstar wrote: Hey guys, awhile ago I had words with a pilot who arrived NORDO. It wasn't that he didn't have radio it was the fact that he was taking on the frequency that was changed 5 years ago ::) and landed in the opposite direction to the runway that my student was doing circuits on. >:(

He was flying one of those old tailwheel airplanes, but to me he was just being an asshole.

Does that make me a Bad Person ?

So, Class 4, you and Slick are acquainted?

Slick Goodlin · Tue Sep 22, 2015 5:38 pm

mmm...bacon wrote:So, Class 4, you and Slick are acquainted?

Maybe some day we'll meet but Class 4's NORDO friend wasn't me. Phew.