Man, talk about ATC being nice to pilots. I was heading into Providence
(RI) earlier today. Weather was VFR, but there was just enough cloud
around that lots of instrument students were out chasing some benign IMC
time (that's what we were doing).

There's some guy who's obviously having trouble navigating. The approach
controller has given him a number of subtle and not-so-subtle (but still
polite) hints, of the "confirm you're on victor-xxx, I show you about N
miles south of the airway centerline" variety.

Then he says something along the lines of, "I know you're doing training,
but would you be willing to accept a vector back to the airway? If I could
get you back on the airway, it would really make things easier for me".

I think I was in the area when this happened. I was IFR to hyannis. Did the
controler say something like " you are 8 miles off the airway" ?


"Roy Smith" > wrote in message
...
> Man, talk about ATC being nice to pilots. I was heading into Providence
> (RI) earlier today. Weather was VFR, but there was just enough cloud
> around that lots of instrument students were out chasing some benign IMC
> time (that's what we were doing).
>
> There's some guy who's obviously having trouble navigating. The approach
> controller has given him a number of subtle and not-so-subtle (but still
> polite) hints, of the "confirm you're on victor-xxx, I show you about N
> miles south of the airway centerline" variety.
>
> Then he says something along the lines of, "I know you're doing training,
> but would you be willing to accept a vector back to the airway? If I
could
> get you back on the airway, it would really make things easier for me".

In article >,
"iflyatiger" > wrote:

> I think I was in the area when this happened. I was IFR to hyannis. Did the
> controler say something like " you are 8 miles off the airway" ?

Yeah, sounds about right. Maybe 1130 local this morning?




>
>
> "Roy Smith" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Man, talk about ATC being nice to pilots. I was heading into Providence
> > (RI) earlier today. Weather was VFR, but there was just enough cloud
> > around that lots of instrument students were out chasing some benign IMC
> > time (that's what we were doing).
> >
> > There's some guy who's obviously having trouble navigating. The approach
> > controller has given him a number of subtle and not-so-subtle (but still
> > polite) hints, of the "confirm you're on victor-xxx, I show you about N
> > miles south of the airway centerline" variety.
> >
> > Then he says something along the lines of, "I know you're doing training,
> > but would you be willing to accept a vector back to the airway? If I
> could
> > get you back on the airway, it would really make things easier for me".

That was it.. I got a few minutes of imc decending out of 7000 past
providence..


"Roy Smith" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "iflyatiger" > wrote:
>
> > I think I was in the area when this happened. I was IFR to hyannis. Did
the
> > controler say something like " you are 8 miles off the airway" ?
>
> Yeah, sounds about right. Maybe 1130 local this morning?
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > "Roy Smith" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > Man, talk about ATC being nice to pilots. I was heading into
Providence
> > > (RI) earlier today. Weather was VFR, but there was just enough cloud
> > > around that lots of instrument students were out chasing some benign
IMC
> > > time (that's what we were doing).
> > >
> > > There's some guy who's obviously having trouble navigating. The
approach
> > > controller has given him a number of subtle and not-so-subtle (but
still
> > > polite) hints, of the "confirm you're on victor-xxx, I show you about
N
> > > miles south of the airway centerline" variety.
> > >
> > > Then he says something along the lines of, "I know you're doing
training,
> > > but would you be willing to accept a vector back to the airway? If I
> > could
> > > get you back on the airway, it would really make things easier for
me".