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Bad Day
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 Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:05 am Post subject: Dumb ass Attack - Long x-c and lined up with the wrong runwa |
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I can't believe I did this. I lined up with the wrong runway.
Imagine wind 180 at 10. You'd take off on rwy 18 right? Right. Oh
nooo..... On my long x-c (dual) I actually called out and LINED UP and
GOT ON FINAL with rwy 36. I heard someone on the radio ask if we were
doing downwind landings today. Well.... yeap. It turns out that I
was. I looked and saw him taxiing out onto rwy 18 while I was going
around and getting the hell out of the way.
From now on I use the heading indicator when approaching the airport -
at about 20 miles out I figure out which runway I'm using.
THat was the 1st airport on the 3 leg trip. I had no trouble at the
next one. Grr. I swear I was soooo embarassed when I saw a big 36
show up as I was calling, "On final for 18".
Totally bad day.
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Michael Nouak
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:06 am Post subject: Re: Dumb ass Attack - Long x-c and lined up with the wrong r |
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"Bad Day" <YeaImEmbarassed@a.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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| Quote: | I can't believe I did this. I lined up with the wrong runway.
Imagine wind 180 at 10. You'd take off on rwy 18 right? Right. Oh
nooo..... On my long x-c (dual) I actually called out and LINED UP and
GOT ON FINAL with rwy 36. I heard someone on the radio ask if we were
doing downwind landings today. Well.... yeap. It turns out that I
was. I looked and saw him taxiing out onto rwy 18 while I was going
around and getting the hell out of the way.
From now on I use the heading indicator when approaching the airport -
at about 20 miles out I figure out which runway I'm using.
THat was the 1st airport on the 3 leg trip. I had no trouble at the
next one. Grr. I swear I was soooo embarassed when I saw a big 36
show up as I was calling, "On final for 18".
Totally bad day.
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Totally great learning experience. IMO.
Mike
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Cecil Chapman
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:38 am Post subject: Re: Dumb ass Attack - Long x-c and lined up with the wrong r |
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The instructor didn't say anything? I guess he thought you'd learn best
from the experience and he/she didn't see any 'risk' in letting you
'stumble' a bit given the conditions/situation at the airport you were
landing at? Just guessing here.....
What a splendid example of learning through the "principle of intensity"
<GRIN> (just me trying out the 'CFI-speak' from the FOI exam I took
recently <GRIN/WINK>). You will likely never make this mistake again. The
heading indicator IS a great aid, as you discovered, in this regard....
Don't be too hard on yourself; rest assured you will likely not forget this
lesson ever again - even better that you came upon such a discovery with a
second pair of eyes with you to 'save' you from a 'more intense' lesson.
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Good Flights!
Cecil
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Corky Scott
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:50 pm Post subject: Re: Dumb ass Attack - Long x-c and lined up with the wrong r |
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:05:55 -0600, Bad Day <YeaImEmbarassed@a.com>
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| Quote: | THat was the 1st airport on the 3 leg trip. I had no trouble at the
next one. Grr. I swear I was soooo embarassed when I saw a big 36
show up as I was calling, "On final for 18".
Totally bad day.
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Could have been worse. The guy who gave me my checkride told me about
doing a bi annual flight review with a pilot. It was evening and the
sun was setting as they approached the field. The pilot had otherwise
done a fine job with the flight and all was well until he called in to
the tower. They were looking straight into the setting sun as they
approached the field but the guy called in that he was approaching
from the west.
The instructor told me he said nothing, just waited to see what would
happen. The guy was given instructions about joining downwind for a
left hand pattern for 36 but this did not appear to bother the pilot
or seem an incongruous instruction.
So on he came and literally did not realise his error in calling in
until he actually spotted the runway in front of him and realised he
had given the wrong direction for his line of approach information.
Now that he realised his error though, he compounded things by doing
nothing to correct it.
At that point he was obviously upset and mumbled to the instructor
that he would just turn left to downwind and did so after overflying
the runway, then landed. The instructor did not pass him this time
and requested that he bone up on call in procedures and had him do
another checkride. He passed that one.
The point, the instructor told me, was that mistakes happen. He sees
them all the time. What matters to him, he went on, was not that you
make mistakes but that you *FIX* them.
He said the guy could have called in at any time when he realised his
error, or sheared off so as not to bust the pattern and would have
gotten revised instructions from the tower. But he just kept on
approaching the field as if frozen.
Corky Scott
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