Originally Posted by avgh
I was advised to do a "Long Final" by the tower staying North of Dundee. I did not like the look of the oil rigs, a mast and the Tay bridge for a "long Final". Once under my instructor I called a "long final" from about 1.5 miles and he said that this was really only for airliners.
There were a lot of iffy decisions taken on the way to the trees, but this one was a shocker. It was, with hindsight, your last get-out-of-jail-free card, and you turned it down because you thought that 1.5 mile finals was "for airliners" - spectacular. If you could see the rigs, mast and bridge then you were fine, surely - just avoid them.
After all your faffing about in controlled airspace, this was a nice, easy to find (and huge) airfield. - it would have been worth your while to have made more of an effort, surely?