RickWoodall
Well Known Member
This is my first year being here early and enjoying the mass arrivals and trying to learn, for my time to fly in a couple years down the road.
AMAZING, how good 99.5% of pilots are, and how bad the last small portion are.
An RV on final was told to pull up and go around 3 times. Yelled at by tower and proceded to land. completely ignoring all instructions. A HUGE (largest i have seen come in) jet on IFR very close final had to pull up and do a low veer off. The rv pilot didnt have a clue. Very dangerous.
Further, all sorts of folks trying to close flight plans, call in from 20 miles out etc on wrong frequency. Some of these folks never even opened the NOTAM.
Great learning experience but BE SAFE. There are some great pilot and beautiful planes coming in. Kids say its "cool" and wife got to ride the mechanical bull at FORD booth and was filmed by Aeronews. Good times.
AMAZING, how good 99.5% of pilots are, and how bad the last small portion are.
An RV on final was told to pull up and go around 3 times. Yelled at by tower and proceded to land. completely ignoring all instructions. A HUGE (largest i have seen come in) jet on IFR very close final had to pull up and do a low veer off. The rv pilot didnt have a clue. Very dangerous.
Further, all sorts of folks trying to close flight plans, call in from 20 miles out etc on wrong frequency. Some of these folks never even opened the NOTAM.
Great learning experience but BE SAFE. There are some great pilot and beautiful planes coming in. Kids say its "cool" and wife got to ride the mechanical bull at FORD booth and was filmed by Aeronews. Good times.