9/11 flying no different

[CRJ_Driver]

Returned today from a round and thought the 9/11 flying like any other day. The one notable exception was that flying the friendly skies today felt patriotic so to speak.

I know the security directives were not the norm but all aside, it would have been nice had more folks travelled today. It would have felt normal to them I'm sure.

Fly Safely and Securely and per the Contract! (lol)

 

[TriStar_drvr]

I flew a late afternoon/early evening flight from North Carolina to California, and I noticed a difference. Listening to center, you'd think you were flying at 3 AM (been there done that) rather than the evening rush hour. The airwaves were silent most of the time. Only the sector controlling the arrivals into PHX was busy. I heard several crews ask for radio checks after long periods of silence.

One airline crew continually missed radio calls, and didn't respond to several requests to fly an assigned speed. The controller finally had enough and asked them to write down the phone number and call it when on the ground. I told the captain if there ever was a day to pay attention and fly as directed, today was definitely it.

 

[CA1900]

I was expecting things to be quiet, but it was like a ghost town in the skies and at the airports today. When the hotel van dropped us off this morning, the most disconcerting thing was that everyone being dropped off at that time was an airline crewmember; there wasn't a single passenger on the curb. (There were a few inside, but not many. We were 10% full.)

 

[LittleLearBoy]

Hello All,

I can tell you that it was a little different in the NYC area. I was out riding my bike at about 11am, when I heard a very loud aircraft. It was an F-15 at about 4000 feet moving across the big blue sky. It brought me back 365 days. And since I live under one of the arrival routes into Newark, that was the only plane I say intill after 2pm. Of course I had to wave, like the pilot really saw me. Doesn't matter, I am just one of the many silent people who say 'thanks'

LLB

 

[dispatchguy]

One airline crew continually missed radio calls, and didn't respond to several requests to fly an assigned speed. The controller finally had enough and asked them to write down the phone number and call it when on the ground. I told the captain if there ever was a day to pay attention and fly as directed, today was definitely it.

If that was in Northern ZAB around 0030Z, I heard the same thing jumpseating into PHX. The controller was also assigning airspeeds such as "so-n-so fly 300 knots on the dot."

My question to the captain, tongue in cheek, was, is "on the dot" in the AIM? What if your airplane doesnt have a "dot" so to speak, would "on the bug" be an equivalent? Could we have been busted for not flying "on the dot"? How can I know what "on the dot" is, if its not in the AIM?

Actually, that controller was a little pi$$y last nite.

The airplane I was jumpseating in overflew a crossing restriction by 50 feet on the arrival, but I guess we were ok since the controller didnt clear us to cross "SLIDR at FL310 on the dot"