How flying is different than driving.
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A whole new set of rules to learn, and boy are they different. A whole new way to communicate is part of the deal to earn your pilot's Certificate. A pilots Certificate is a LIFE long Certificate of Accomplishment. A license, like a drivers, has an expiration date. Once you EARN a Pilots Certificate it is for life.
This guy was the best controller EVER, his name is Steve. He was the best to ever safely move aircraft full of people on the ground, he has retired. Steve was a AWESOME addition to the safety we all enjoy while flying to see grandma. Even a lowly Cessna 172 is treated as an equal in the airspace of the United States of America, and across the globe. These busy airports are an amazing feat of safety earned in blood.
Listen to the controlled chaos and understand why you sat at point X for several minutes.
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Wow. That guy should have a cardiologist on call.
they have my respect ( traffic controllers ) he is on top of the game
with my short term memory and bad temper flare ups I could see having the worst air disaster ever with in 2 minutes
On purpose!
Old joke-
Controller: Bravo 82, come right to 090 for noise control
Bravo 82: We're at 10,000 feet. What sort of noise are we controlling?
Controller- the sound of you hitting the 737 at your 12 o'clock.
Whole new sets of rules, and way up here we’re slowly working away from the Jet and Victor routes, heading toward Q and T routes, inevitably toward free flight with ADS-B.
The areas I tend to fly are not often impacted by Bravo or Charlie airspace. If going on a longer trip I use flight following and the controllers help keep me safe from other traffic and maneuver through controlled airspace.
Not using controlled airspace much when I land I ask ground control for progressive taxi. The ground controllers hold your hand turn by turn getting to where you need to be. A lot of professional pilots laugh at you for using progressive taxi but I never miss a turn thinking I know it all.
There is a whole catalog on KENNEDY STEVE. Youtube has hours of his professional banter and calm control of the chaos on the ground. He really is a national treasure and his retirement left a big hole in the ATC sphere.
I thought this was going to be about stopping along the road to pee.
if you do that while flying, its called rain........
Flying is pretty simple - if you can think in four dimensions and multi-task at least three different things simultaneously.
One of my favorite John Candy movies is "Summer Rental" where he nearly has a nervous breakdown directing air traffic from a fly on his screen that won't cooperate with his directions! 😁
Avoid controlled airspace? What could possibly go wrong???
I haven't flown in over forty years but indeed my private license is still good. What would I need to fly a glider or single engine land under sport pilot rules solo? Could I just be signed off to fly solo by a flight instructor like a student pilot? I've never had a flight review so I have no idea what is required.
I flew a few times into Chicago, O'hare in a twin Cessna, had the instructor with me. It wasn't bad till you got on the ground, then ground control is clicking their uppers way to fast for me to keep up! When they hold a 747 so that you can taxi in front of it, you realize just how small you are. Get behind one of those big boys and if they crack the throttle you will probably be blown over! One time in a single they want to you to land on the second half of the runway and maintain 120 knots, heavy 5 miles behind you. Not a comfortable feeling, knowing one of those big boys is right behind you.
Friend used to call the Restricted Air Space over DC the "Doughnut of Death".
I used to fly helicopters. Getting mixed in with fixed wing traffic is bad ju-ju. Controller is telling you to maintain 120 knots. You are in an aircraft with a top speed of 110 knots.