Matt777
Well-Known Member
Yesterday I had my first miscommunication with a controller...
I told SEA Approach that we wanted a circle-to-land. When I get handed off to the Class D tower and tell him I am FAF inbound, he says, " continue ". (GPS 17 approach Rwy 35 in use).
I continue and he never says a word, so when we break right off the Final App Course for our circle to land I announce, " Making left downwind for 35 " to which he is clearly surprised. He wasn't upset and really didn't seem to care, but he was assuming a straight-in low approach I guess when I requested a Circle to App.
I've done these same approaches many other times and have never had this happen. Now that I think about it, normally when I call up tower they tell me to call a 3 mile final and then when I do they say "circle to the west, report starting the circle". This controller just said "continue".
Maybe App forgot to tell tower that we were a circle?
thanks for the help!
I told SEA Approach that we wanted a circle-to-land. When I get handed off to the Class D tower and tell him I am FAF inbound, he says, " continue ". (GPS 17 approach Rwy 35 in use).
I continue and he never says a word, so when we break right off the Final App Course for our circle to land I announce, " Making left downwind for 35 " to which he is clearly surprised. He wasn't upset and really didn't seem to care, but he was assuming a straight-in low approach I guess when I requested a Circle to App.
I've done these same approaches many other times and have never had this happen. Now that I think about it, normally when I call up tower they tell me to call a 3 mile final and then when I do they say "circle to the west, report starting the circle". This controller just said "continue".
Maybe App forgot to tell tower that we were a circle?
thanks for the help!