Recent content by PropPilot23

Thanks, everyone. This is all helpful. @dmspilot, you have a good point. We may have been task saturated, or simply not on top of our game. Whatever the case may be, we certainly did not fly the missed. Rest assured, however, this is a wake up call to be more focused. In the years I've been...

All very true. We confirmed after the flight that we did not break any regulations or conflict with traffic. The controller had every right to be frustrated, although it certainly doesn't feel good to get a good thrashing on the frequency. I'm certain that if it was serious, we would have...

Thanks for the heads up. I pulled up the information by searching the NOTAMs only to discover that the procedure was cancelled as of February. So We're still not clear. We were certainly not IFR. We remained VFR at all times and were receiving separation services. We were never given any...

I agree, in part. I certainly think expectation bias played a role here, although we did request a right crosswind departure with tower and were told that we were cleared for the option. Clarification certainly should have been sought, by both the flight crew and the controller. I suspect that...

Oops. It was an ambitious flight. We wanted to do our IFR currency in one flight. We planned six approaches to six airports, all with holds, tracking, intercepts, and even a circle to land. We were excited. We’ve done this before many times, and each time the controllers were fun, we were on...