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bad vectors, no hand off
Flyers,
I just want some of your thoughts on this. My plane partner and I went out last night to do some practice instrument approaches. He wore the hood and I was the right-seat safety pilot. ATC was not too busy and it was a nice VFR night. First, after we asked for a practice ILS 24 into KPNE they acknowledged our request and then forgot about us and had us continue flying away from the field for sometime. This continued until I finally asked if they were going to vector us. "Oh...no...I just figured you'd turn toward Yardley." Hmmm...ok we turn toward Yardley. He then had us climb to 3000. He vectored us onto the approach within 1/8 mile of the final approach fix, had us maintain 3000 (FAF alt on chart is 2000) and cleared us for the approach. My partner was struggling to get the plane down and I'm looking out for planes, our attitude, the glide slope, his airspeed,...IOW...everything. I suddenly realize that we are on a 1/2 mile final (way above the glide slope) and we were never handed off to the tower. I push the flip-flop button and contact the tower and ask if we missed a handoff. The tower responds, "I've been waiting for you to contact us" "I'm sorry. Did approach hand us off?" "No...but that doesn't matter...it's your responsibility. You need to realize that there is a problem before you're on a 1/2 mile final." To make a long story short...we were given back to approach and did the approach into our field (VOR-A). We were handed off to another approach controller. We asked for a practice VOR-A into N14 with vectors. This controller never vectored us and merrily watched us (or didn't watch us) fly right through the approach course, never vectoring us, never assigning an altitude and never clearing us for the approach. I get on the radio and asked if he wanted us to fly through the approach course. "Ahhh...no...just intercept the approach course and maintain 2100 until PONDE (the FAF)..." he then cleared us for the approach. What was this? A bad night for controllers? Were we second class citizens? And why did I get bawled out for the approach controllers forgetful hand-off? Kobra |
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