"Jeff" wrote in message
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Years back, I was flying with my Dad and they wanted to get some pictures
of a relatives house. The problem was that their house is under the Class
C of Nashville (BNA) and directly under one of the approaches. It was a
slower time of the day for BNA, but by telling them what we were doing and
how long we would be doing it, ATC accomodated and we were able to make
several orbits of the house and take quite a few pics. Got REAL close and
personal with a landing MD80 in the process, but they saw us, we saw them
and ATC was involved the whole way.

Was my first experience in learning that ATC doesn't have to respond to
every request with the same phrase

jf

"Unable?"

;O)

Jay B