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Offline iceman23

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KTVC student, lost?
« on: April 24, 2010, 04:46:16 UTC »
All he needed to do was taxi straight ahead on charlie.  A few wrong turns and a lot of nerves later lead to an interesting dialog.



Cap747

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Re: KTVC student, lost?
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2010, 09:54:03 UTC »
Go straight on Charlie taxiing can be very confusing, so here's the airport diagram...
« Last Edit: April 24, 2010, 13:25:19 UTC by Cap747 »

Offline speedotann

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Re: KTVC student, lost?
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2010, 14:09:25 UTC »
I want to be a student who gets to fly around in a Citation!

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Offline iceman23

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Re: KTVC student, lost?
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2010, 15:49:20 UTC »
speed - though it does sound like it a couple times, he was flying a Tri-Pacer.

Cap747

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Re: KTVC student, lost?
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2010, 20:25:39 UTC »
This was a tough one, finding the parking ramp...


Can you learn to get a feeling of direction, or do you have to be born with it?

Offline speedotann

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Re: KTVC student, lost?
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2010, 00:32:50 UTC »
This was a tough one, finding the parking ramp...


Can you learn to get a feeling of direction, or do you have to be born with it?

Born with it!! It takes common sense to have direction sense... I bet this guy was super book smart, but no common sense.... I have a few friends who are like that, no common sense and always get lost! LoL

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Offline taga7a

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Re: KTVC student, lost?
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2010, 22:31:14 UTC »
wow the ground controller has ALOT of patiences with the student pilot!!!! Wow!!!


Offline picci

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Re: KTVC student, lost?
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2010, 00:03:56 UTC »


"turn left on charlie...no wtf... someone get him a satnav!"

Offline Florida_Flyboy

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Re: KTVC student, lost?
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2010, 01:26:51 UTC »
The controller did have a lot of patience, hats off to him.

At some airports, taxiing can be confusing no matter what level of experience. I find KFLL rather confusing at times. I see the "gps" "satnav" joke above.  Actually, my Garmin 496 GPS has a feature called "SafeTaxi". It works well enough... but there are times when it's not quite fast enough.

One thing that I do to help me:  I have an clear acetate sheet that I place over my airport diagram on my kneeboard; then just after I exit the runway and contact ground control... I run a highlighter over the taxi ways I was given clearance for - before I throttle up to taxi. Then just wipe the sheet clean when I'm done.

KHAOS

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Re: KTVC student, lost?
« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2010, 21:17:43 UTC »
One thing that I do to help me:  I have an clear acetate sheet that I place over my airport diagram on my kneeboard; then just after I exit the runway and contact ground control... I run a highlighter over the taxi ways I was given clearance for - before I throttle up to taxi. Then just wipe the sheet clean when I'm done.
That's a way good idea!  I might have to get in to that habit as well.

Holy HELL, that guy was LOST!  What a space-case.  Hope he doesn't fly the same way he taxis.
« Last Edit: April 27, 2010, 21:21:41 UTC by KHAOS »