cforst513
Giggity giggity goo!!!
- Joined
- Oct 20, 2004
- Posts
- 1,851
I was reading the Gulstream/TEB (http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?t=64082) thread and i had a question about professionalism and whether or not i have a legitimate gripe:
yesterday i was flying in the soup, through a mighty level 2 rainstorm, getting vectors to final for the GPS 29 approach into new smyrna beach. at KEVB there is a charter/PFT outfit called Vintage Props and Jets. On approach i keep hearing this vintage king air pilot asking daytona approach if they can get the approach into DAB, break it off, cancel, and head over to KEVB in VFR conditions at like 1000'. approach said no. they couldn't shoot the GPS 29 b/c they aren't GPS equipped and the NDB is INOP at KEVB. so basically they had to enter the field VFR. i was on short final, broke out of the clouds around 800' or so, which is the TPA for KEVB. at around 300' above ground level, flaps 10 degrees, i'm told to do a left 360 by the tower to let the king air fly straight in rwy 11. so this requires me to do a climbing left turn in the crap-tacular weather, which i was OK with, but i didn't want to head back into the actual conditions. not only that but there was another a/c on final for GPS 29. so who do i complain to? was this bad show of professionalism on the part of the king air guys or the tower? or should i just not worry about it b/c this sort of thing happens from time to time? i wasn't in any danger, it was more of an inconvenience. i don't think that there are any towers in the immediate area.
yesterday i was flying in the soup, through a mighty level 2 rainstorm, getting vectors to final for the GPS 29 approach into new smyrna beach. at KEVB there is a charter/PFT outfit called Vintage Props and Jets. On approach i keep hearing this vintage king air pilot asking daytona approach if they can get the approach into DAB, break it off, cancel, and head over to KEVB in VFR conditions at like 1000'. approach said no. they couldn't shoot the GPS 29 b/c they aren't GPS equipped and the NDB is INOP at KEVB. so basically they had to enter the field VFR. i was on short final, broke out of the clouds around 800' or so, which is the TPA for KEVB. at around 300' above ground level, flaps 10 degrees, i'm told to do a left 360 by the tower to let the king air fly straight in rwy 11. so this requires me to do a climbing left turn in the crap-tacular weather, which i was OK with, but i didn't want to head back into the actual conditions. not only that but there was another a/c on final for GPS 29. so who do i complain to? was this bad show of professionalism on the part of the king air guys or the tower? or should i just not worry about it b/c this sort of thing happens from time to time? i wasn't in any danger, it was more of an inconvenience. i don't think that there are any towers in the immediate area.