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Final Approach
A friend of mine who currently flies for NW came into town. Last night we went flying. We planned to go to FDK, eat, and head back.
When we got to the airport, my CFI said, oooh, I need to be back at 8 PM. we can try though. we didn't get airbound til sometime after 7 - maybe 720? (I picked a new spiffy plane b/c my friend was there, so a few new procedures, had to check the numbers, etc etc). MAN WAS IT HOT OUT!!
We landed and by the time we cleared the runway it was 7:50. So we went back. No probs but boy was it busy on the radio! couldn't get a word in edgewise. so finally I had to circle. nice wide one... and called in. "118PB standby." several minutes later... called in again. He sent me to another freq. same thing. (still circling) wait wait wait. circle circle circle. called in again. "standby please". finally he sent us to another freq. (still circling). that one "standby please". we bounced between all three freqs a few times before finally someone took pity on us.
all told, no less than 6... and actually given that we were up there what seemed like 15 minutes and I was pretty much doing standard rate turns... coulda been 7-8.
so much for being back on time!
When we got to the airport, my CFI said, oooh, I need to be back at 8 PM. we can try though. we didn't get airbound til sometime after 7 - maybe 720? (I picked a new spiffy plane b/c my friend was there, so a few new procedures, had to check the numbers, etc etc). MAN WAS IT HOT OUT!!
We landed and by the time we cleared the runway it was 7:50. So we went back. No probs but boy was it busy on the radio! couldn't get a word in edgewise. so finally I had to circle. nice wide one... and called in. "118PB standby." several minutes later... called in again. He sent me to another freq. same thing. (still circling) wait wait wait. circle circle circle. called in again. "standby please". finally he sent us to another freq. (still circling). that one "standby please". we bounced between all three freqs a few times before finally someone took pity on us.
all told, no less than 6... and actually given that we were up there what seemed like 15 minutes and I was pretty much doing standard rate turns... coulda been 7-8.
so much for being back on time!