Sun Oct 14, 2018 10:27 am
#1644534
So...question. I was travelling north one day, happily pootling along at about 3500ft. Normally I avoid CAS, but thought since I was at 3500ft, rather than descend and go round, I'd call up East Midlands for a transit. From what I could hear on the radio it seemed that 3500ft, perpendicular to the runway, would have been a good place to just go straight through.
So I called them up...
They asked me to descend to (IIRC) 1000ft and take up on orbit before playing chicken with the approaching airliners by using that VFR lane up the M1. I had to wait until one airliner passed then put my foot down to cross over the approach path to get through before the next one ("with the airliner in sight") got to me.
I would have thought that going straight over the top at 3500 without deviation would have been simpler and safer than making a run across the final approach between arrivals?
So I called them up...
They asked me to descend to (IIRC) 1000ft and take up on orbit before playing chicken with the approaching airliners by using that VFR lane up the M1. I had to wait until one airliner passed then put my foot down to cross over the approach path to get through before the next one ("with the airliner in sight") got to me.
I would have thought that going straight over the top at 3500 without deviation would have been simpler and safer than making a run across the final approach between arrivals?