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Want to meet a flight instructor?
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 5:50 pm
by Slick Goodlin
Show up NORDO at his airfield!
Re: Want to meet a flight instructor?
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:42 am
by Colonel
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.
Re: Want to meet a flight instructor?
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:32 am
by Class 4 Superstar
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 ?
Re: Want to meet a flight instructor?
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 8:45 am
by Colonel
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.
Re: Want to meet a flight instructor?
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:13 pm
by Rookie Pilot
....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.
Re: Want to meet a flight instructor?
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:01 pm
by David MacRay
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.
Re: Want to meet a flight instructor?
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:49 pm
by mmm...bacon
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?
Re: Want to meet a flight instructor?
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 5:38 pm
by Slick Goodlin
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.