Please wait - small aircraft inbound !
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Those two had to delay their take-off and taxiing due to my small ass landing on the runway with the 90° angle...
I have never felt more observed than at that time
Skeknir@reddit
I like to think they're over there cheering you on - you might be enjoying the flying more than them 😅
My solo XC there was a Ryanair plane holding short while I did touch and go, got a quick "lovely landing, sir". Felt real good that day!
PilotC150@reddit
My first solo, on my third landing, a B-25 was holding short waiting for me to land.
Random61504@reddit
I got to do a very steep forward slip for like 3,000ft and when I touched down, had to F-16s watching me. I felt like such a cool dude until they took off and went straight vertical, rolled inverted, and got to 3,000ft inside 5 seconds haha.
Square_Ad8756@reddit
Show offs…
FiberApproach2783@reddit
No pressure
lambakins@reddit
I had an F35 wait for me to land at kbtv one time. Though usually it was me waiting on them.
Skeknir@reddit
Ok, that's cooler :-) Do you need to wait for wake turb after a fighter? Just not a thing in Ireland, hasn't come up! Air force has Pilatus PC-9 and PC-12 but they usually stick to the military aerodromes.
lambakins@reddit
Yep you do. Air national guard has a base on the other side of the runway as the airport. The whole town was up in arms when they replaced the old F16s because of the noise of the F35 and because they’re technically nuclear capable.
Dude, they’re not flying around Burlington Vermont with nukes 🙄
BarnackIIIF@reddit
I've often wondered about that: would the "heavy" pilots rather be in your place?
Buzz407@reddit
It was Ryanair, he probably went back to his CP and asked how you landed without using the oleos full travel.
flyingron@reddit
I used to be based at IAD and my wife learned to fly there. I had to give her a crash course in identifying airliners as the controllers would tell her to follow the 737 and she didn't know what it was. Later she got here revenge.
IAD: United 254 follow the Navion ahead of you to the runway.
UAL: Follow the what?
IAD: You see that little blue airplane up ahead. You get behind her and follow her.
Mundane-Reality-7770@reddit
United 254 negative contact on the taxiing blue thing
FromTheHangar@reddit
I've been the taxiing little DA42 in front of a 777 in low visibility, was a bit afraid of being run over. But the ground controller was on top of things and asked the airliner to report in sight or not go past some point behind is. Somehow they managed to see us in the fog.
FuckMu@reddit
Holy shit I can't imagine training at Dulles, are the landing fees as brutal as I expect they would be?
flyingron@reddit
Tne landing fees (this was 10 years ago) were $8 for most light singles. We had a deal with the FBO, so that was pretty much all the direct cost.
TPWPNY16@reddit
Until I saw your runway in the second pic I'm thinking, "Is he on a very dangerous base?" Now I get your 90-deg description.
Bulky_Pin9373@reddit
I did one of my early flights out of Kona, Hawaii and had to sequence between several long-haul carriers heading to Japan or US Mainland... one heck of a taxi and hold time! Landing was also sequenced between the heavies! Talk about pressure!
shadeyyyy_@reddit
The two planes respect you!
FreSchDude@reddit
Wow. Closest I got to doing that was getting a crossing clearance over EDDS and witnessing a jet take off under me.
Apprehensive_Cost937@reddit
Cool! The way it often works, when you're flying small airplanes, you wish you'd be flying a jet, and then 20 years later when you've had thousands of hours in a jet, you wish you could be flying that same light aircraft again, instead of being at work :)
Let me guess... LFOB?
pballer2oo7@reddit
They're both getting paid by the minute.
Apprehensive_Cost937@reddit
Not all that common in Europe, actually.
Plus, variable pay (such as per sector, scheduled block hour, actual block time, or duty time) if you work for a good airline, is low. The better the airline, the higher percentage of the salary is fixed, which means if you don't fly that much (e.g. in winter), or get sick, or whatever, you still get paid pretty much the full salary.
Just_Another_Pilot@reddit
I sometimes look back with nostalgia on my GA and military flying days and all the fun I had. Then I snap back to my senses, extend the tray table in preparation of my crew meal, and think about what boat I should buy next.
phaederus@reddit
I assume you're thinking about a flying boat.
Stairwen@reddit (OP)
Good guess !
ComprehensiveGoose94@reddit
It took me a very quick second to realise that’s LFOB-BVA! Flying there more times than I would like to haha
saml01@reddit
The landing with the...what?
150kingpin@reddit
One of my favorite memories was having 4 jets holding short while we shot an ILS approach in actual during instrument training in a Cessna 150; broke out at minimums and my instructor and I both got a good laugh at the amount of money being spent waiting for two guys in a lawnmower.
Mispelled-This@reddit
Late at night departing a class C after Tower and Approach had closed. Called Center from the ramp and was shocked to get a 10-minute release. Took me nearly that entire time to taxi to the runway. Checked in with Departure and heard 2 freight dogs were holding inbound. Felt bad for them, but not my fault.
KilgorePhish@reddit
I once was in line with the Baltimore ravens boeing 717 right behind my c-172 ass. Did a quick night cross country to SRQ didn’t see that coming. Getting my license was fun.
Best_Big_9456@reddit
In the small planes wishing you were flying the big ones, then in the big planes wishing you were flying the small ones!
EatingDirtRN@reddit
It’s incredible to see those planes holding short for you, it makes you feel important lol.
On my first solo xc about a week ago I had a Turkish Airlines A350 holding short and was slotted in right behind an E135. Absolutely incredible stuff.
Mundane-Reality-7770@reddit
One of these days I'll work up the stones to say Cherokee heavy... Since I fly a Cherokee six
FreakinWolfy_@reddit
One of my favorite things while I was working on my instrument rating was getting cleared for an approach into Ted Stevens International. Without fail, there would be some jet up there circling and asking approach if that 172 had landed yet. That’ll really make a guy feel important.
akstowaway@reddit
Anchorage approach has an awesome group of controllers.
But having a C5 get told that he can’t do something because there is a Cessna in the pattern at Elmendorf is cooler 🙃
I think the kid in the tower was just happy he could tell someone no.
VillageIdiotsAgent@reddit
100% chance they are watching and thinking/saying “I miss that.”
lt_dt@reddit
When I was taking flying lessons many years ago, my flight instructor had us fly in to a medium-sized airport to practice ILS approaches. On our final one, we did a full stop and taxied back to the departure end to head back to our little airport. We ended up holding short across from a Northwest DC-9 (this was a long time ago). The DC-9 wasn't ready so the controller let us go first. I felt really bad for the next 10-15 minutes looking back and seeing the DC-9 lined up and waiting for us to get far enough away that they could go. It was pretty cool, though, holding short across from a "real" airplane.
SirMcWaffel@reddit
„Size doesn’t matter, it’s how you use it“
rFlyingTower@reddit
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Those two had to delay their take-off and taxiing due to my small ass landing on the runway with the 90° angle...
I have never felt more observed than at that time
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