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Point taken, but I gotta be honest, I'm tired of hearing this. Yeah there are people on furlough. There are also people starving in Ethiopia. There are hundreds of children in my state with no parents. There's a guy down the street with bone cancer. There is tragedy everywhere.Rizer said:Although this has been an interesting and sometimes humorous thread, I think you have to step back and put things in perspective. Major airlines are in bankrupcy, thousands of pilots are furloughed, wackos are shooting missiles at airlines. Who cares if some guy a mile below you says "with you" or "checkin in" or how some guy pronounces "niner". There are more important issues to worry about. Keep things in perspective.
avbug said:You're right. Many ag airplanes don't have radios (most do), and often not a lot of radio calls get made. When I'm in one, I don't do a lot of yapping...I look out the window and admire all the other pretty airplanes, flowers, big rocks, and towers. Just like I do in the jet.
So for those of us flitting around with no radios, don't get too alarmed if we don't answer you right away. There's a new movement afoot to fly around rocking our wings a lot to compensate for the lack of verbose harmony. That, and we're all going to paint our airplanes bright orange, just in case some joker plans his traffic on what he hears on request...instead of what he sees. [/B]
So, what's different about the 25th time around the pattern, other than your own boredom? I fly out af an uncontrolled airport eighty miles from another one with the same CTAF frequency and the same runway headings. You can hear the calls from both airports loud and clear.after the 25th time around the pattern do we still need to say the name of the airport?
Sequence and wind checks don't bother me. What does bother me is this:Clownpilot said:...if you don't know why a sequence call is a good idea you haven't done any commercial flying.