Originally Posted by
capngrog
"Pretty sure" has the potential to get any of us into a lot of trouble. Did you ask for clarification of the instruction " ... Right One Orbit"? What was the approach controller's response to your read back?
Cheers,
Grog
I told him "Right one orbit", and he said nothing. When we came back around towards our original heading, he told us "Two more orbits". I told him no, that we would be too low on fuel, and we would take the shorter runway (which he wanted us to take in the first place). The controllers acted like they were maxed out in capability, but there were actually very few aircraft in their airspace...kind of like the opposite of ORD, JFK HKG, or LAX...