Postby jwocky » Mon Nov 06, 2017 11:16 pm
Parameter stability is not what happened in Genoa. The weather was on Sunday changing all five minutes and the wind made me switch the runway direction several times, but it always was totally wrong, the pick was mostly between a lot of crosswind from the left or the right with a few knots tailwind vs the advantage of ILS.
I had actually early on Saturday and then the last hour of my Sunday service a few fighters, I am not sure whether they were with OPRF though. They cruised through telling me, they were patrolling the area, there was a Viggen searching for a certain Tu-154, but thy got it organized in a way, they didn't endanger or disturb any of the commercial planes. In between, there was lester with a nice old plane, someone came with a DC-3 and Michat, Miguel and Chris came with Pipers and Cessnas, just to round up the picture on my field.
I am still thinking to ask around so someone can make me a list in Spanish and Portugese for all the standard lines like "turn left to xxx degrees" or "descent to 6000 ft". See, English is the language of air traffic, alright, but I still would like to find a way to get at least basic instructions out to those who can't speak English. It's just one of my ideas.
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