Favorite and Least Favorite Airport
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SeanD
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bike21
9-5 Ruins Lives
I am sure it is a matter of time before I get slapped with one of those suckers.
"Delta's von zero zix, you uhh you zed e'vie on initial callup, ve do not need zee e'vie on each tranzmission."
JaceTheAce
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Best Airport: San Diego, CA because it gets me home, plus the scenery on the approach is amazing.
Worst Airport: White Plains, NY. The passengers are spoiled rich brats and the airport is a clustermuck nonsense (because there's no more room!) of parked airplanes and terminating repo aircraft.
Worst Airport: White Plains, NY. The passengers are spoiled rich brats and the airport is a clustermuck nonsense (because there's no more room!) of parked airplanes and terminating repo aircraft.
typhoonpilot
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For fun/challenging approches I always liked LGA and DCA.
For food, the popcorn in DAY was nice many years ago. Conch fritters in Key West and back when the Airways Motel was still around the buffalo wings in BUF.
PHL would have to top the list of the worst. Nightmare to get in and out of, bad handling, and generally rude people.
Internationally any airport in Australia is bad. Immigration and Customs are just nasty people. ATC is unhelpful and actually try to get you violated. They write so many deviation reports on our flights it isn't even funny. Silly crap like, "answered CPDLC with free text instead of requested report", or my all time favorite, "deviated 1.5 miles off track without clearance". Umm, the airway is wider than that you pedantic fck wit.
Addis Ababa - ATC is a nightmare. Usually just end up telling them what I'm going to do instead of letting them try to run me into a mountain.
Lagos - Again, ATC is a nightmare. Not a fun layover.
Good ones include:
Nice - fun approaches, nice layover
Mauritius - same as above
Glasgow - good selection of Single Malts in Duty Free
Dubai - great Duty Free plus it's home
Vienna - very efficient getting in and out, both ATC and Immigration/Customs. Good layover as well.
Typhoonpilot
For food, the popcorn in DAY was nice many years ago. Conch fritters in Key West and back when the Airways Motel was still around the buffalo wings in BUF.
PHL would have to top the list of the worst. Nightmare to get in and out of, bad handling, and generally rude people.
Internationally any airport in Australia is bad. Immigration and Customs are just nasty people. ATC is unhelpful and actually try to get you violated. They write so many deviation reports on our flights it isn't even funny. Silly crap like, "answered CPDLC with free text instead of requested report", or my all time favorite, "deviated 1.5 miles off track without clearance". Umm, the airway is wider than that you pedantic fck wit.
Addis Ababa - ATC is a nightmare. Usually just end up telling them what I'm going to do instead of letting them try to run me into a mountain.
Lagos - Again, ATC is a nightmare. Not a fun layover.
Good ones include:
Nice - fun approaches, nice layover
Mauritius - same as above
Glasgow - good selection of Single Malts in Duty Free
Dubai - great Duty Free plus it's home
Vienna - very efficient getting in and out, both ATC and Immigration/Customs. Good layover as well.
Typhoonpilot
mxflyer
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Oh yeah, I hate the overnight with the repo....and nothing is around the hotel.
Last time I went there, we were decending through 15,000 heading north over Long Island and the FA called:
FA: Remember that really rude guy in 3D I told you about?
Me: Yeah, what's up?
FA: He is demanding to know what lake is off the right hand side of the airplane.
Me: Umm, that lake is known as the Atlantic Ocean.
She made an announcement letting him know.
Firebird2XC
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I think DFW still does that.
"Spot 46, turn left, JAR, who are you?"
They do, actually. If you set the ATC ID in your transponder, it works well.
Just sit there and they call ya. Saves confusion on ground control immensely. Very efficient once you're used to it.
bike21
9-5 Ruins Lives
There are multitudes of fun to be had at HPN. Like the night we parked our bird on the short runway for overnight storage since there wasn't room anywhere else. That just didn't feel right!
Or when we had half those rich brats barf one night trying to get in. Went missed on the first one due to windshear and general nastiness. We got in the second time around only to find out that a little karma was repaid with some upset stomachs
ChasenSFO
hen teaser
:yup:Last time I went there, we were decending through 15,000 heading north over Long Island and the FA called:
FA: Remember that really rude guy in 3D I told you about?
Me: Yeah, what's up?
FA: He is demanding to know what lake is off the right hand side of the airplane.
Me: Umm, that lake is known as the Atlantic Ocean.
She made an announcement letting him know.
JaceTheAce
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Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
On One Of Those Other Sites, someone has a pretty nice avatar of a FedEx Caravan with a big red circle and line through it with the caption "GET OUT OF THE WAY!"
Amen.
On the other side of the equation, I'm constantly slowed to stall speed to let some RJ set up for his leisurely ten mile 747 pattern at 140 knots. I'm ready to do 232 knots to three out and I'm falling out of the sky because somebody's Profile says Stabilized Approach from the next state over and they're in a Jet so they must be fast! Grrrrrr! It's not a race!? WHO SAYS!?
RPM
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I like being #42 for takeoff at HPN behind a bunch of private jets.. thats always fun.. at least you get to watch every jet cross the tree line and about roll or crash from that nasty windshear that is ALWAYS there.. then land into an uphill runway.. At least the horrid windshear recovery landings and go-arounds are fun to watch while sitting in line for hours.. I have some good video somewhere..
I also like the stupid airport employee's banging on the side of the plane to open the doors and always yelling at passengers.. idiots..
jtrain609
Antisocial Monster
Depending on the airframe and situation, you can take an EMB-145 and hit the marker at 250 knots and be on speed and stabilized by 1,000' AGL in a lot of situations, and 500' easily.
Is that always possible? Nope, but it can be done. Are all crews comfortable with doing it? At my company they were, but I don't know about other places. Can a CRJ do it? No idea. EMB-170? Not a clue.
But don't think you can't fly an RJ like you stole it AND still be within the profile.
Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
More often than not, jetlink crews in particular seem to keep it within the realm of sanity. I can't say the same for...oh, I dunno...let's say Eagle ATRs, just for the sake of argument.
It's kind of funny, really. I'd get slowed down from time to time in the MU-2 by RJs, but nearly so often. The controllers seemed to know that you were going fast and intended to stay that way. Whereas I think they just see "KingAir" when they see a 99 and assume you're some nancy with time to burn. Funny because the mitsi actually required some time to slow down, being somewhat slick, whereas the Flying Barn Door (aka the 99) can go from redline to 120 in like 30 seconds. Further argument for controllers to get at least a PPL (and presumably further argument for RJ pilots to have a reasonable amount of experience).
PS. Avatar? Benito Mussolini? The Empire Strikes Back? I'm confused.
LoadMasterC141
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"Reach Eighteen Fifteen Heaveee, go to Rudesheim and hold"
"Can't do it due to fuel"
"Reach Eighteen Fiften Heavee, state your fuel and do not lie"
RPM
Well-Known Member
More often than not, jetlink crews in particular seem to keep it within the realm of sanity. I can't say the same for...oh, I dunno...let's say Eagle ATRs, just for the sake of argument.
Hey now, I fly my approaches at Eagle as fast as possible, its more fun.
It's the stupid crusty old timers at Eagle that are scared to death of flaps 22 landings for some reason that get slow and poke around.. max flp 45 speed is only 145 and they fly well below that.. so thats why they are so slow. Flaps 22 speed is 200..
