thnxs 'jaba' I am tired I think I'll take that rest now
"JM" yr right with one word you mention, 'risk', flying is all about risks, calculated risks & my beliefs have kept me from 'buying the farm' for many years & hopefully shall continue to do so
I stay alert as much as I physically can when entering a CTAF, mostly the pvt pilots within have enough brains to slot in around me due to our line of work. I'm fortunate that I have alert crew onboard & they know how dangerous a CTAF can be especially on W/E's with at times numerous
'Farmer Browns" about. But plz to those pvt pilots out there how about giving an arrival time in real time, not minutes to run. I have in my mind a specific time of arrival it adds to the work load when someone says 4 mins for Eg before arrival with no distance & I might have missed his A/C type (or it wasn't even given). Little things like that mean we can all "read from the same book"
CW