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There's always FHU, PRC or NYL too, if TUS is too busy to accomodate.
Stinger
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I think we just got those recently as well. Didn't know they were touch screen though.
I usually try just a 10 amendment first, get an invalid message a lot of times. Then I try the 6,7,10 and it takes me a couple different attempts before I get something that is accepted.
FM_Weasel
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Same, but I had a ton of practice. Some facilities don't mess with the FDIO much even if they have one.
queeno
Ward of the Guberment
yep i here that 20 yeas in a busy Z will do that to you, its the only time the C90 folks liked us X center pukes ! Back in the day i was the fastest two finger typist in the world !!!!!!!!!!!
Karnage
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PRC was down for a while too but now with temperatures dropping we usually cannot get there without violating school mins for temperature, and seems like every time I go to NYL they are using 3s though I have been able to get some PARs there lately which is a nice end to the boredom of getting there.mFHU isn't in the "approved" list for our program so it's back to the usual IWA and CGZ routine for me most of the time as the lessons are usually too short to take the trip to the Tucson area.
Back when the ILS at Gateway closed for the summer I suggested a few months of TDY to SoCal but couldn't get it approved.
Just mainly visiting aircraft doing pattern work and using the ILS. Home based aircraft going in and out is low, especially after the aforementioned flight school closed, which was training Chinese students in many Bonanza/Baron aircraft.
Vector4Food
This job would be easier without all the airplanes
America should just buy NavCanadas technology like the rest of the world is and get with the 21st century 
Karnage
I-am-a-pirate. I do not need credentials!
My imperial overlords and masters have decided that flying around in OAT's less than 5 C at cruise altitude in a Diamond 40 whenever there's a cloud within 100nm is to be avoided at all costs. Other programs at the same school are simply required to avoid flight into known icing but the chief instructor for our program has decided that if there's even a remote possibility of icing (i.e. OAT less than 10 and clouds reported or firecast at our chosen cruise altitude) "appropriate TEM countermeasures are to be used" which he has described simply as either cancelling the flight or re-planning to a destination that allows for cruise at a lower, warmer altitude. Since we are prohibited from going to PRC, FLG, SEZ, and other mountainous airports MAY-SEP, by the time we are permitted to head north it usually ends up being a crap shoot as to whether to weather allows us to go.
Then again, my program is full of weird little restrictions and oddities based in large part on the aversion to risk of the sponsoring airline and their head instructor. For example, we cannot fly to Wickenburg even on a dual flight because although it's an approved airport (they just copy/pasted the school's standard 141 program list) the chief instructor practically had an aneurysm when he flew over it and saw the slope of the runway. Or the fact that if there's rain in the forecast anywhere along their route of flight within 2 hours before or after scheduled time of a solo flight they cannot go, even though the five other programs at the school will send out solos in the rain as long as the visibility and ceiling meet school requirements.
Wickenburg is a good field, in terms of having the airport to yourself practically.