LowApproach_SoCal wrote:

I am just curious if anyone else has had a similar experience there,
or if I am being hypersensitive.

Well, I haven't been there, but the closest thing I've seen to that on the East coast
if the Norfolk controller who gets snippy if someone reports being northeast of the
airport when they are actually north-northeast. Even he is polite as punch except for
that. In fact, given my lack of practice at controlled fields, I'm sometimes amazed
at the tolerance most controllers display when I enter their domain.

George Patterson
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