EdFred
Taxi to Parking
...or Forgot Staffing Specialists
...or Frequency Stays Silent
...or F-ing Sucky Service
So I'm heading home from Peroia, and I get to about 12 west of the Peotone VOR, the weather forecast was botched as usual for the midwest, and I called up Kankakee Radio on 122.2 and then 122.05 (or whatever the other frequency is) while listening on the VOR, for about 10-12 minutes while I circled waiting for them to respond so I could air file an IFR plan
Finally I said screw it and called up Chicago Center and got a clearance to get through about 15-20 miles of scuz. While in the scuz I got ice...nope, not on the wings...engine started losing power, and I started checking the mixture, the throttle, and finally yanked on the carb heat...ah, there we go. Broke out of the scuz on the other side and everything was fine.
So are FSS not monitoring frequencies anymore?
...or Frequency Stays Silent
...or F-ing Sucky Service
So I'm heading home from Peroia, and I get to about 12 west of the Peotone VOR, the weather forecast was botched as usual for the midwest, and I called up Kankakee Radio on 122.2 and then 122.05 (or whatever the other frequency is) while listening on the VOR, for about 10-12 minutes while I circled waiting for them to respond so I could air file an IFR plan
Finally I said screw it and called up Chicago Center and got a clearance to get through about 15-20 miles of scuz. While in the scuz I got ice...nope, not on the wings...engine started losing power, and I started checking the mixture, the throttle, and finally yanked on the carb heat...ah, there we go. Broke out of the scuz on the other side and everything was fine.
So are FSS not monitoring frequencies anymore?
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