On Jul 20, 12:28*pm, Mxsmanic wrote:
What is the largest/busiest airport you've flown into or out of in a small GA
aircraft as a private pilot, and was it IFR or VFR? *What was the attitude of
the ATC in the area towards pilots like yourself moving about in an area
normally dominated by airliners and commercial flights?

Dulles, VFR in a Warrior.

They vectored me all over the place to keep me out of the way of the
airliners and IFR traffic (it was CAVU day), I was definitely their
lowest priority and for about 1/2 hour I got a tour of the ADIZ while
they kept pushing me out of the way. Then let me land on 19L (with a
13 mile final during a break in airliner traffic and asked if I
could make the first high-speed turnoff (ummm, yes).

Their attitude was fine, but they clearly were rusty on dealing with
VFR traffic

Heck they were rusty on dealing with spam can traffic, period. When
we departed, clearance delivery told us to maintain 4000 or lower.
When we contacted departure they were annoyed at that clearance and
told us to stay at 2000 or below. But then we were cleared to 4000
before we'd even climbed past 1500. Clearly they were used to dealing
with much faster climbing planes than Warriors near gross on a hot
day.

It was a flying club trip and four Warriors went. I was VFR, the
others were IFR. I took off for Dulles first, and was the last one to
land.