OB362: Blinded by the Light Gun
Opposing Bases: Air Traffic Talk
Air Traffic Talk
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Episode 362 Show Notes
Topic of the show: On this week’s show, AG and RH discuss the dreaded flashing red light from the control tower indicating it was unsafe to land. The pilot was experiencing an emergency and determined landing was the safest way to conclude the flight. Why would a tower controller deny a landing? What other options does the pilot have during a no-radio emergency?
Timely Feedback:
1. Patron KK shares some follow up about the nasty-gram from the airport authority regarding noise abatement.
2. SGAC Patron WC offers a compromise for noise abatement concerns.
3. Patron AMB shares a creative crew scheduling technique.
4. Patron MIK shares audio about Cowboy Delta visual approaches.
Feedback:
1. Patron SRD shared a story of getting locked out of their own flight deck while parked at the gate!
2. Patron SS shares a story of a friendly TRACON controller offering flight following.
Mentioned on the show:. AOPA Airport Support Network: https://www.aopa.org/advocacy/airports-and-airspace/airport-advocacy/asn.
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| 0:00.0 | And a pilot should be saying, hey, I didn't make this up. |
| 0:03.6 | There was something burning. |
| 0:05.1 | And I'm not flying that until we find out what it was. |
| 0:07.7 | Right. |
| 0:08.4 | Period. |
| 0:09.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:09.9 | You get down, you get back on the ground. |
| 0:12.0 | Everything comes back on. |
| 0:14.1 | And it's like, oh, it's working. |
| 0:15.6 | Tower, we're ready to taxi for takeoff. |
| 0:17.9 | No. |
| 0:18.4 | No, no, no, no. |
| 0:19.7 | Don't do that. |
| 0:22.1 | Ready. No. No, no, no, no. Don't do that. Ready. |
| 0:36.2 | This is Opposing Bases Air Traffic Talk. Your host, Alpha Golf and Romeo Hotel, have a half century of aviation experience and combat helicopters, |
| 0:41.0 | airliners, and air traffic control. They answer your questions about flying aviation and ATC. |
| 0:48.0 | This weekly podcast is for entertainment and education and does not serve as a replacement for a qualified flight instructor, |
| 0:55.9 | an examiner, the FARs, the 7110, your best friend, your next pilot, or your cat. |
| 1:02.8 | November 628 Charlie Delft, the Squawk 1-200, frequency change approved. The audio will be available |
| 1:08.2 | on live ATC. day November 643 juliet |
| 1:11.7 | mic clear visual approach runway two three left Connick Tower November 322 to |
| 1:16.5 | Yankee area of heavy to extreme precipitation to the clock to one o'clock one |
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