Lrjtcaptain
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here is a very simple one for pilots to follow.
Know the ground and tower frequency before you fire up your airplane. "Ah, ground, what is tower freq" "Ah, tower, i couldn't get a hold of ground on 121.7 so im taxing anyways" --thats cause ground is .9
Opposite direction.
Ill run it workload permiting.
#1 If your on a practice ILS to a runway opposite direction to what I am running at the time, dont necessarily think your taking it to minimums or even if your full stop your taking it to circling minimums. Ill work it as far as I can but when i say start your circle or go missed, don't bitch and continue to fly the ils for another 30 seconds. Everything I do is for saftey reasons. I don't want a GV starting his turn below 200agl to avoid a C172 on the ILS cause he doesn't understand the Start your missed call.
If for some reason you just have to takeoff on an opposite direction runway and tower approves it, when you take off offset right or left of centerline. There are more aircraft out there besides you!
Dont talk to your buddy on my radio! The radio is not for you to say hey man, hows it going. You got a cell phone, call them. A few times ive had to issue go arounds, but got stepped on by locals saying hi to the guy they were just sitting at the FBO with. My radios do have overwrite power but sometimes i still get stepped on.
As for the TCAS stuff, MY TCAS is bigger, has pretty colors and has a neat little compas and I can zoom it out to 60 miles if i want to. Your tcas is worthless to me, if i call traffic, you see him or you dont....seeing him on TCAS isn't seeing him.
As for the guys busting through airspace without clearence. Happens all the time and i always find out who they are. Just so you all know, if you don't have a xpdr turned on, i can still see a primary target out there. The radar will still pick you up. Then I just quote traffic, grab the binoc's and start looking. Yesterday I had a guy come in with his mode c on, came within about a mile from the airport, when i asked him to id himself he turned around and flew north bound, landed at an airport 10 miles north. I tuned in the Unicom and i know exactly who it was.
Know the ground and tower frequency before you fire up your airplane. "Ah, ground, what is tower freq" "Ah, tower, i couldn't get a hold of ground on 121.7 so im taxing anyways" --thats cause ground is .9
Opposite direction.
Ill run it workload permiting.
#1 If your on a practice ILS to a runway opposite direction to what I am running at the time, dont necessarily think your taking it to minimums or even if your full stop your taking it to circling minimums. Ill work it as far as I can but when i say start your circle or go missed, don't bitch and continue to fly the ils for another 30 seconds. Everything I do is for saftey reasons. I don't want a GV starting his turn below 200agl to avoid a C172 on the ILS cause he doesn't understand the Start your missed call.
If for some reason you just have to takeoff on an opposite direction runway and tower approves it, when you take off offset right or left of centerline. There are more aircraft out there besides you!
Dont talk to your buddy on my radio! The radio is not for you to say hey man, hows it going. You got a cell phone, call them. A few times ive had to issue go arounds, but got stepped on by locals saying hi to the guy they were just sitting at the FBO with. My radios do have overwrite power but sometimes i still get stepped on.
As for the TCAS stuff, MY TCAS is bigger, has pretty colors and has a neat little compas and I can zoom it out to 60 miles if i want to. Your tcas is worthless to me, if i call traffic, you see him or you dont....seeing him on TCAS isn't seeing him.
As for the guys busting through airspace without clearence. Happens all the time and i always find out who they are. Just so you all know, if you don't have a xpdr turned on, i can still see a primary target out there. The radar will still pick you up. Then I just quote traffic, grab the binoc's and start looking. Yesterday I had a guy come in with his mode c on, came within about a mile from the airport, when i asked him to id himself he turned around and flew north bound, landed at an airport 10 miles north. I tuned in the Unicom and i know exactly who it was.
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