Felt like Real Pilot Today

MrLeisure757

MrLeisure757

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I had a flight lesson this afternoon out of Keene, NH. EEN use to take commercial traffic and still has the old terminal, yet it is an uncontrolled airport with a 6200ft runway. Anyway, I show up at 5:00 for my lesson. I get out of my 'Yota and I hear this loud whine - jets???

Sure enough, I walk around the fence and my instructor is standing there watching FIVE types of jets (Citations, Falcons and a Lear. Apparently there was a convention in the area and they flew in this morning. Anyway, since they are IFR they had to hold for about 6 minutes each so the jet infront could clear the airspace. We taxied out to a different runway and took off before the last two. It was really cool communicating with them on the radio, because these guys are people I look up to. So I felt like an actual pilot communcating on the same freq.

On a side note, the lesson went great and he said I'll be ready to solo soon!
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When I used to fly out of Dallas we used to have to come in on Regional approach, the same freq. DFW Int'l. used, that was a very intimidating feeling.

ATC: AA 2564 Heavy descend and maintain 5,000 ft.

AA 2564: Down to 5,000 AA 2564

Me: (Whimpering Pathetic voice) Regional Approach Cessna 757WP over plano inbound to addison for landing, student pilot.

Then they talk so fast, and I just sit there and hope I got everything down
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Yeah, regional approach can be frustrating at times, especially when you mix in the weekend flyers who really don't know what they're doing. I can't help but cringe at some of the radio transmissions I hear up there....

Also, they really expect you to be able to see the airport you're landing at within 10 miles....if you've never been to that particular place before, it can be tricky. I was on about a 15 mile final for runway 33 (I think) at Addison, approach was bugging me every 30 second about wether I had the field in sight yet....
 
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I was on about a 15 mile final for runway 33 (I think) at Addison, approach was bugging me every 30 second about wether I had the field in sight yet....

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Ahh.... What Memories

I remember those hazy summer days I couldn't see the airport until I was on the south side of airpark, my instructor just said "keep looking for the big open space right over there"

The controllers were very forgiving with me though, I made my mistakes and they just acted like it didn't happen!
 
Yeah i know how you feel Mate. I remember when i did my first Nav trip to Bathurst in New South Wales, which was onyl about 3 weeks ago, and as i was 5Miles inboud to land, an Royal Flying Doctor service Beech King air 200 was inboud to land with an Medical emergency!
I got to communicate with him, which made me feel like a "real pilot" for a few mins!

Great feeling!!
 
We left the airspace and then came back and they were all gone which was nice. Because then I practiced pattern work.

Oh and I also encountered a first, standing behind them. It gets REALLY hot.
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I know how you feel. Thank God I didn't do much talking on the radio until I was able to do it the pattern. Just imagine the guys at Potomac Tracon hearing, "uh, Washington, I mean Potomac departure, I mean approach, Cessna 12345 uh, at uh, 1000 flying south out of XXX" at the same time they're trying to work all the traffic flying in and out of DCA!

Sometimes I feel sorry for those guys. They're trying to work the big iron and then they've got guys like us who need ADIZ squawks!
 
I've had the joy of playing with PIT approach the past few days. Interestingly enough I find that ATC tends to talk SLOWER then FSS. Maybe it's just the set of briefers at Elkins.

Ethan
 
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When I used to fly out of Dallas we used to have to come in on Regional approach, the same freq. DFW Int'l. used, that was a very intimidating feeling.

ATC: AA 2564 Heavy descend and maintain 5,000 ft.

AA 2564: Down to 5,000 AA 2564

Me: (Whimpering Pathetic voice) Regional Approach Cessna 757WP over plano inbound to addison for landing, student pilot.

Then they talk so fast, and I just sit there and hope I got everything down
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I'll be doing my private this summer at ADS. Sounds like fun
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Best to learn to deal with it from the beginning, I suppose.
 
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I'll be doing my private this summer at ADS. Sounds like fun Best to learn to deal with it from the beginning, I suppose.

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Monarch Air???

If so let me know if my 152's are still there

N757WP
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Training out of Orange County is an experience .... with close to 200 commercial flights a day on everything from regional jets to 767's and just the two parallel runways, it's got to be one of the busiest commercial airports that supports a large amount of training flights. You learn to become very good about wake turbulence avoidence .... just yesterday, I did pattern work in the Citabria and on every one of the seven landings, there was an airliner landing parallel or just in front of us. We also had two go arounds because a 757 touched down on the right runway while another jet was holding between the two runways ... no way to safely land and get it down fast enough without going through someone's wake.
 
I was kind of suprised at how nice they were at PIT approach though... I was extremely nervous the first time in there but they were really easy to work with !! .. I still get a little nervous but it sure is fun !!!
 
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