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bob loblaw

bob loblaw

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Is there any way to get Harrisburgh Approach on the internet. I said something funny last night and I was wondering if they have the same deal as Philly, Ohare, Boston, and such.
 
I was working with Harrisburg Approach and asked them for a GPS 17 into KTHV. The controller asked me how the approach will terminate, and I responded in a way I always wanted to. I told him the approach will terminate in a smoking heap. It took the controller about 10 seconds to respond.
 
bob loblaw said:
I was working with Harrisburg Approach and asked them for a GPS 17 into KTHV. The controller asked me how the approach will terminate, and I responded in a way I always wanted to. I told him the approach will terminate in a smoking heap. It took the controller about 10 seconds to respond.
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Cant remember off-hand the actual Web site, but the FAA's new NACO site has all current "NOS" (now really NACO) approach plates available for download, for free. They are current and can be legally used (91, anyway).
 
bob loblaw said:
I was working with Harrisburg Approach and asked them for a GPS 17 into KTHV. The controller asked me how the approach will terminate, and I responded in a way I always wanted to. I told him the approach will terminate in a smoking heap. It took the controller about 10 seconds to respond.
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Yikes! I think it might take me ten seconds to respond to that, too. :)
 
Can't say I would have made a comment like that ... especially after hearing about the pilot who asked the tower controller to copy down a phone number to phone his family ... only to moments later purposely throw the plane into the ground.

I would say it's one thing to be humorous for all to laugh at, another to make a comment that ATC for a second or two has to examine whether or not you're being serious and act accordingly.

YMMV and to each their own I suppose ...

Disclaimer: I have no beef with Loblaw or any of his previous threads throughout the forum ... I wanted to say that before others say comments like these are because I or someone else may like to take shots at him ... not the case ....
 
bob loblaw said:
I was working with Harrisburg Approach and asked them for a GPS 17 into KTHV. The controller asked me how the approach will terminate, and I responded in a way I always wanted to. I told him the approach will terminate in a smoking heap. It took the controller about 10 seconds to respond.
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:(
 
bob loblaw said:
I was working with Harrisburg Approach and asked them for a GPS 17 into KTHV. The controller asked me how the approach will terminate, and I responded in a way I always wanted to. I told him the approach will terminate in a smoking heap. It took the controller about 10 seconds to respond.
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Flew into York, did you?

I've got as good of a sense of humor as anyone, but if I were in that controllers shoes, or if I heard that on freq, I don't think I'd be laughing.
 
bob loblaw said:
The controller asked me how the approach will terminate, and I responded in a way I always wanted to. I told him the approach will terminate in a smoking heap. It took the controller about 10 seconds to respond.
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That made me chuckle. I don't see what the big deal is.

The internet isn't a very good medium for telling jokes. Said with the right timing, tone of voice, and circumstances, I think it would be funny. Said with the wrong timing, tone of voice, and circumstances, it could be scary.
 
There's no humor in that comment, at all. You know how many people eat it at the end of shooting approaches for one reason or another?
 
jrh said:
That made me chuckle. I don't see what the big deal is.

The internet isn't a very good medium for telling jokes. Said with the right timing, tone of voice, and circumstances, I think it would be funny. Said with the wrong timing, tone of voice, and circumstances, it could be scary.
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Absolutley agreed! And while flying an aircraft in today's security sensitive enviornment was definatley not the right timing.
 
Picture that comment coming from a pilot carrying passengers on board, whether it be 121, 91 corporate, or 135. Still humorous?
 
(sarcasm)That is such an unprofessional thing to do. i cant believe you call yourself a pilot. you are such a hippocrit (/sarcasm)

sound familiar.....
 
FlyChicaga said:
Picture that comment coming from a pilot carrying passengers on board, whether it be 121, 91 corporate, or 135. Still humorous?
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No, not really. But he's not flying 121. He's a flight instructor. That's half of the joke in itself. I hear flight instructors joke all the time about students trying to kill them. It should have been obvious he was a flight instructor based on the equipment he was flying (Cessna? Cherokee?) and his actions (repeated practice approaches).

I'm not saying it was the funniest thing I've ever heard, but I wouldn't chew him out for being inappropriate/scary/unprofessional either. It's just a little joke!
 
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