Fearless Tower
Touchdown! Greaser!
Sometimes I think the sleepy Class C controllers here in Norfolk have a secret desire to be Class Bravo. On my final flight home this morning, the Norfolk Approach controller clears me for the ILS 5 and tells me to maintain my best possible speed (I'm already doing 160 KIAS). He is soooo concerned that he makes me specifically acknowledge that instruction and then tells me 2 more times including the final hand-off to Tower (there was an RJ 20 miles in tow). Before he hands me off, I hear him apologize to the Air Wisconsin guys behind me and tells them to slow to 190.
So I keep my speed up - about 150 on the approach until short final. Buy the time I taxied to the ramp and shut down, the RJ was still about a mile out. WTF? I'm all about helping ATC, but give me a break...this guy was freakin' more than the controllers sequencing me into the congo line at CLT last night.
So I keep my speed up - about 150 on the approach until short final. Buy the time I taxied to the ramp and shut down, the RJ was still about a mile out. WTF? I'm all about helping ATC, but give me a break...this guy was freakin' more than the controllers sequencing me into the congo line at CLT last night.