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Old 20th Apr 2011, 21:28
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bubbers44
 
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I chose to fly international to relieve the stress of KORD and KJFK, etc. and fly to nice unstressful airports like Tegucigalpa, Honduras, named the most dangerous commercial airline airport recently in the world. It was a daylight only operation and a lot of fun in a 757. Stress is usually caused by overloaded controllers that can't give you clearances putting you in a dilemma of getting an approach clearance or a clearance to land to make you legal. Down south, maybe three airplanes are on frequency. My final stress flying south was my retirement flight when approach forgot about us on our return flight with a very congested frequency and didn't clear us for the approach so we finally got it with a full down glide slope and the recovery after being finally cleared ended up in one of my worst landings with my friends on board.

Life is stress free now. I never felt flying was very stressful because I loved it. Some airports put a bit of stress into the job.
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