Jay Honeck
Touchdown! Greaser!
On our most recent journey we overflew San Antonio's airspace twice. We were utilizing VFR flight following both times. I parked our butt up at 7500 feet and 6500 feet, respectively, so as to be out of their hair. (On Saturday, especially, they were incredibly busy. It was like every GA plane for 400 miles was airborne at once.)
As I cruised along fat, dumb, and happy, I heard a Mexican-registered aircraft call approach. He had just departed from an outlying airport, and asked for VFR flight following.
In the same transmission, he asked for "vectors to Blah Blah Airport" (I don't remember which one). Mary and I chuckled, and figured the incredibly busy controller would chastise him, or say "unable", or something. I mean, I had never heard of any pilot asking a controller for "vectors" to anything while under VFR flight following.
To our surprise, the controller calmly gave the dude vectors, as if this was the most common request in the world.
So, P-of-Aers -- is this something pilots do nowadays? Is this something that's always been done, and I simply missed it in my 19 years of flying spam cans? Have you ever asked for vectors to an airport while VFR?
As I cruised along fat, dumb, and happy, I heard a Mexican-registered aircraft call approach. He had just departed from an outlying airport, and asked for VFR flight following.
In the same transmission, he asked for "vectors to Blah Blah Airport" (I don't remember which one). Mary and I chuckled, and figured the incredibly busy controller would chastise him, or say "unable", or something. I mean, I had never heard of any pilot asking a controller for "vectors" to anything while under VFR flight following.
To our surprise, the controller calmly gave the dude vectors, as if this was the most common request in the world.
So, P-of-Aers -- is this something pilots do nowadays? Is this something that's always been done, and I simply missed it in my 19 years of flying spam cans? Have you ever asked for vectors to an airport while VFR?