Hurray foreign students.

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...that can't use the radio right and then proceed to taxi right by you at night, with strobes blaring. Thanks buddy. 'Preciate it.
 
Yeah, I'm just grouchy after <6 hours of sleep. Also, being in an Arrow I don't think he was exactly a primary student.
 
Roger said:
...that can't use the radio right and then proceed to taxi right by you at night, with strobes blaring. Thanks buddy. 'Preciate it.
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i have been known to get on the radio and say

"ground, this is ________, can you ask _______ to turn off their strobes"
 
BuickCFI said:
i have been known to get on the radio and say

"ground, this is ________, can you ask _______ to turn off their strobes"
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Yeah, I just said (over tower) "Arrow 53C, thanks for the strobes". I don't even know if the dude had enough situation awareness to understand that I was annoyed, but hopefully there was a CFI onboard who picked up on it.
 
I know the feeling! I have been working with foreign students, and there is another school across the field who works with chinese students. It is a major pain in the butt!!! However, if not for the Foreign students GA would really be hurting alot more then what it is.
 
Roger said:
Yeah, I just said (over tower) "Arrow 53C, thanks for the strobes". I don't even know if the dude had enough situation awareness to understand that I was annoyed, but hopefully there was a CFI onboard who picked up on it.
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Since nobody else has said it yet, I'll say it--calling out another pilot over the radio is pretty much never a good way to handle conflict. I don't consider it professional or useful. The world would be a very chaotic place if everyone commented over the radio about every thing that irritated them.
 
jrh said:
Since nobody else has said it yet, I'll say it--calling out another pilot over the radio is pretty much never a good way to handle conflict. I don't consider it professional or useful. The world would be a very chaotic place if everyone commented over the radio about every thing that irritated them.
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I know. I felt like a tool about it immediately afterward. It'd been a long day and I was already cranky about something or other.
 
jrh said:
Since nobody else has said it yet, I'll say it--calling out another pilot over the radio is pretty much never a good way to handle conflict. I don't consider it professional or useful. The world would be a very chaotic place if everyone commented over the radio about every thing that irritated them.
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i pose it as a question to ground. if i am behind the airplane in a 5 minute taxi to the runup area, it could be as long as 15 minutes before takeoff, i am not going to sit there and watch their strobes for 15 minutes on the ground!
 
What kind of plane was it. Perhaps strobes were the only form of anti-collision lighting on the aircraft? I know that on Diamonds and Cirri, that is the only thing you've got. I also know that some guys are idiots, and think that you have to run them 24/7, as opposed to using the navigation lights when on the ground.
 
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