Any New Scenarios from Professional Pilots?

[BrettInLJ]

C'mon people! I think this is a great forum because it teaches judgement and decision making. Let's get some members who have experience flying professionally to give us some more real world or realistic scenarios.

[FlyOrDie]

It was a bright and bumpy Colorado afternoon. On the way into Colorado Springs I glanced back into the cabin and noticed a piece of the headliner hanging from the ceiling. Fortunately the only thing that had to be done was go back and re-velcro the panel. I'm not flying single pilot yet in the King Air so the other pilot was able to go back and fix that issue and we had no pax on board to think the airplane was falling apart.

In a single pilot environment with pax on board I would have explained how to put the panel back up. And tried to calm them down if they were freaking out. If I was empty I would have closed the cockpit door and ignored the swinging panel until after I got on the ground.

The biggest headache for the corporate flying we do is when to file the IFR because most of the time the owner is LATE!

Bryan

[ComplexHiAv8r]

Couldnt you call back up and change the time before it expired, or do you have to cancel it and refile?

[SteveC]

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Couldnt you call back up and change the time before it expired, or do you have to cancel it and refile?

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Sounds like his boss must be really late since normally they hold a flight plan for two hours after planned departure time. I will often call the tower (controlled field situation) and ask them to keep it open it if it looks like it is going to be longer than that. Or just let it expire and refile when they show up.

I learned something new the other day (actually I probably learned it in the past, just forgot over time!). I was in the FBO and the pax were due to arrive shortly, and I see the tower phone number listed on the wall. Rather than wait until we're loaded up, or going out to the plane and firing up a radio to get my clearance (and maybe not be inside when the pax show), I figured I'd call 'em on the phone and get my clearance and save a couple minutes of time. Single pilot operation so there is no one else along to delagate that to. Nope, no can do the tower operator tells me. Unlike a call to an FSS, the tower phone is not a recorded line, and I have to do it over the radio so it's all on the record. Makes sense, I guess. I just hadn't thought about that aspect of the procedure.

[C650CPT]

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The biggest headache for the corporate flying we do is when to file the IFR because most of the time the owner is LATE!

Bryan

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Rule #1 in Corporate Flying:

The Boss is NEVER Late!

Jim

[Kingairer]

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Couldnt you call back up and change the time before it expired, or do you have to cancel it and refile?

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Sounds like his boss must be really late since normally they hold a flight plan for two hours after planned departure time. I will often call the tower (controlled field situation) and ask them to keep it open it if it looks like it is going to be longer than that. Or just let it expire and refile when they show up.

I learned something new the other day (actually I probably learned it in the past, just forgot over time!). I was in the FBO and the pax were due to arrive shortly, and I see the tower phone number listed on the wall. Rather than wait until we're loaded up, or going out to the plane and firing up a radio to get my clearance (and maybe not be inside when the pax show), I figured I'd call 'em on the phone and get my clearance and save a couple minutes of time. Single pilot operation so there is no one else along to delagate that to. Nope, no can do the tower operator tells me. Unlike a call to an FSS, the tower phone is not a recorded line, and I have to do it over the radio so it's all on the record. Makes sense, I guess. I just hadn't thought about that aspect of the procedure.

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I remember Wilson Air in MEM had a radio/telephone for clearance delivery in there wx room. Made it really nice to have all that sort of stuff done before you went.

[NJA_Capt]

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C'mon people! I think this is a great forum because it teaches judgement and decision making. Let's get some members who have experience flying professionally to give us some more real world or realistic scenarios.

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OK.....how's that.

[Theotokos]

I could post....jk.