Medal Winners: Air Traffic Control Tapes

"vincent p. norris" wrote in message
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It was standard practice at marine and navy towers, back when I was
in, for tower operators to add "check gerar down and locked" when
clearing a pilot to land.

Wouldn't it be helpful for civilian towers to do that?


No, it just makes the controller sound like an idiot, telling all those
fixed-gear aircraft to check wheels down.

vincent p. norris wrote:

Geez. We'd catch a dozen gear ups every year when I was at GFK.


It was standard practice at marine and navy towers, back when I was
in, for tower operators to add "check gerar down and locked" when
clearing a pilot to land.

Wouldn't it be helpful for civilian towers to do that?

No, because it would be ignored. Like when you give a pilot a wind
check with his landing clearance and then 10 seconds later asks for a
wind check.



Is the FAA concerned about liability issues?

Not when you land gear up. The FAA doesn't buy that one.

Wouldn't it be helpful for civilian towers to do that?

I had a civilian tower say "check wheels down" to me last Saturday.
This was only my second XC to a towered airport, so I had no idea what
they said. I asked my instructor and he told me, so I got a good
chuckle out of it since our gear was (hopefully) fixed - I looked out
the window to make sure it was still there... But, considering a
previous instructor of mine became my ex-instructor after a belly
landing, I guess a little reminder never hurt...

Montblack wrote:

From today's AvWeb: NATCA Honors Its Best
Archie League Medal Safety: Air Traffic Control Tapes

http://www.natca.org/mediacenter/ALTapes.msp

Be interesting if they updated these more frequently.

--
Peter

From today's AvWeb: NATCA Honors Its Best
Archie League Medal Safety: Air Traffic Control Tapes
http://www.natca.org/mediacenter/ALTapes.msp

Hey, did you hear the one about the blonde Cirrus pilot? :-))

"Montblack" wrote in message ...

Western Pacific Region:
Traffic call to avoid collision.


Montblack

Sounds like they had their head in the cockpit in VFR conditions - reminiscent of the PSA collision in San Diego...

Cool... l listened to all four or five of them. Thanks for the link.

The Monk