Jeff wrote- >fly the KR over into the class C airport and demonstrate for all to hear on >the radio just how rusty I am in dealing with ATC. >Actually, embarrassingly rusty and ended up just being pleased to leave >without getting gigged by the FAA
I am based at a tower-controlled airport with four commercial airlines flying regularly scheduled flights in and out, and in summertime, often with air tanker traffic added to the mix into and out of the tanker base on the field. Also have Erickson Aircrane flying all manner of rotary-wing craft in and out of their base on our field. I keep my radio on tower frequency when I'm at the airport messing around in the hangar so I can hear what's going on and keep my radio skills up as best as I can but I, too, sometimes botch things up on the radio or forget some procedural thing that the tower bunch has to watch carefully. Example: I fly a low and slow aircraft and my main objective is usually to get clear of the active since my final and rollout take so much longer than that of other traffic and I don't want to hold people up. So one time (but never again!), I swung off the active runway and made my call to let them know where I was going on the ground. I called "Medford tower, Experimental four-one-charlie-charlie is clear of the active, taxi to the north hangars". I received a stern correction that four one charlie charlie is NOT clear of the active until crossing the hold lines at the taxiway entrance. Gulp... the controller was right, I had physically cleared the active runway but had stopped at the runway side of the hold lines instead of leaving them behind me. I still blow it with our ATC people even though I hear the radio chatter for hours and hours and hours, all types of chatter, and I know what to say and how to say it- but sometimes it just doesn't come out right or I miss conveying some important info to the controller. Oh yeah, and then there was the time when I took off my helmet and put it on the control stick while I pushed the airplane back into the hangar. I went to retrieve my handheld and noticed that it was warm to the touch when I turned it off. Well duh-! My flying helmet was holding down the PTT on the stick and it had been transmitting for a couple of minutes, obviously blocking the ground frequency with my "stuck" mike-!! Yes, I held my breath for awhile, wondering when the "tower police" were going to come and get me... Oscar Zuniga Medford, OR Air Camper NX41CC, A75 power _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
