Clownpilot
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Rush Limbaugh said:Once he landed, I was over the approach lights and the controller said "aircraft short final, go around, aircraft on runway." Looking at my gas, I was about a beer above emergency fuel so I said "unable" and landed anyway and then directed my wingman to land as well. Needless to say, the controller wasn't all that happy with me and gave me his phone number and acted like it was the last time I would ever fly an airplane. I never called the guy but he did violate my callsign which was placed in the "noted" file in the wing safety office along with the dozen or so the FAA whines about each week.>>
You survived this for one simple reason. As a military pilot they cannot violate you. They can only request that your controlling authority take action against you. In other words the Secretary of the Air Force would have to take action on behalf of the FAA. Guess how often that happens?
>>I wouldn't recommend landing without clearance, especially a civilian pilot,...........>>
Sage advice. The fact is had you done this at a commercial carrier you would have been violated, forced to appear before a board for the FAA, license probably suspended by the FAA, possibly fined out of your own pocket, and I guarantee your carrier would have sent you on an unpaid vacation. The FAA rules the civilian aviation world and all airlines answer to them. If you leave the military for a commercial job, leave the military attitude towards the controllers behind with it. When you were minimum fuel you should have declared it, when you went emergency fuel you should have declared that too.