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Old 14th October 2002 | 17:45
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formationfoto
 
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Never said the world was perfect!
How many of us ring in advance for an extended briefing?. And when told "just give us a call on 111.1" then push for further information?. Let me put my hands up - not me.

I tend to regard airfields without air traffic units as possible centres of unusual or od hoc activity and expect everyone else to be an idiot (not that I think they are) so when on finals in a non radio aircraft following another aircraft which has just landed I assume that he is going to 180 and back track without looking rather than continue to the holding point and pull off. About half the time I am right and have to execute a go round. Half the time I am able to continue. Can't get too bothered about it because I was ready for the danger. Probably think that the guy ahead could have had his eyes out of the cockpit a bit more and been more considerate but that passes reasonably quickly.

On one incident similar to the above I did have someone tell me that I shouldn't be flying without a ***** radio and that he had more right to be there than I had but he had probably come from an environment where he expected to be passed all traffic information by someone else.

The best aviators are those who are able to assess different actions required for different situations and this takes both total experience and exposure to different circumstances. I remember once watching someone land a PA28 downwind and thinking that he must have been quite inexperienced only to find that he was a training captain on a particular jet airliner which only the best get to fly. In his day job he hardly ever had to think about the wind direction.
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