ATC subtle hints
If I were a controller, there's no way in hell I would do this.
Why would I want my voice on tape helping some clueless twit figure out
how to kill himself?
I was leaving HPN one morning. It was one of those funny days where there
was no practical impediment to visual navigation, but a few oddly placed
low clouds in just the wrong places force the tower to declare the field
IFR from time to time.
Some guy landed and the ground controller launched into a full ground
school lesson plan. He apologized profusely to the pilot for NY Approach
not letting him in earlier that morning, explained to him how weather
observations worked, special VFR worked, why the rules made it impossible
for the controller to have suggested this to the pilot while he was still
in the air, etc, etc.
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