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Offline keith

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« on: April 21, 2006, 01:07:51 AM »
Today was such a nice day here in New Jersey, I couldn't resist going for a late afternoon flight.  I don't have a lot of time in the type of plane I'm now flying (C172), and while I'm ok to fly them according to the flying club's rules, I really wanted to do a bunch of landings to get more comfy rather than just doing an A to B flight.

So, I departed Morristown (KMMU), transitioned KCDW (Caldwell) and did a bunch of pattern work at Lincoln Park.  Wouldn't you know it, all three of those airports are covered by my liveatc feed? :)

It's really neat to come back home, download the archive a few hours later, and relive most of the flight. It's not foolproof, since some transmissions aren't caught if it's stuck on another freq...but I still heard plenty of them.

Do many other ppl do this?



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« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2006, 01:30:27 AM »
Well...I went flying at Republic as 680MA and I enjoyed listening to myself on the archives :)

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« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2006, 01:46:20 AM »
Is that you, JB? :)

Well I learned a few interesting things listening to the archives. While I was flying up at Greenwood Lake (not on the archive), a Seneca must've declared an emergency at KMMU because the controller asks him for location, souls on board, and fuel.  A Gulfstream checks in on the visual and is told to slow down, and is eventually sent around for closed traffic while they sweep the rwy to check for debris from the Seneca. (kCDW archive, Apr 20, 18:30 archive, 22 mins 30 secs, roughly).

What's truly scary, though, is that two pilots said "is that Keith?" on the air, one on the Lincoln Park freq and one on Caldwell freq. I gave a presentation about VATSIM at Lincoln Park on Tuesday night, maybe it was one of those guys.

There's a really nice clip in the 7pm archive from 6 mins 30 onwards where a heli and an arriving Cessna are keeping themselves separated at Lincoln Park.  They do a great job and are really friendly.  Heart warming stuff!

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« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2006, 02:03:52 AM »
Good job Keith.

JB

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« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2006, 06:55:03 AM »
I do that also... I really like it. Two little sounds of a cross country I did monday. Sorry it's in french oops  :o

http://jspallanzani.free.fr/xcountry/videos/departMontreal_CGSDD.zip
http://jspallanzani.free.fr/xcountry/videos/arriveeMontreal_CGSDD.zip

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« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2006, 07:42:12 AM »
Guilty as charged!

I like to do a "post-flight" review, and my friends have used it as a tool to evaluate their radiotelephony skills (need to slow it down a bit!)

Offline MIAMIATC

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« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2006, 09:20:43 AM »
Keith,

        Why dont you buzz my house low altitudewise here in North Bergen(I live onky one block away from North Hudson Park)!!! Let me know in PM what your N number is and when you might do so ???? 8)

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« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2006, 11:16:55 AM »
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Why dont you buzz my house low altitudewise here in North Bergen(I live onky one block away from North Hudson Park)!!!


The number one cause of GA accidents:  Maneuvering flight.   :(

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« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2006, 11:19:23 AM »
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Do many other ppl do this?


I do, as it is a valuable tool.  Early on I discovered, via the archives here, that I would often speak way too fast on the frequency.

Since hearing this flaw I have worked on really slowing it down, which, when listening to the successive archives, was actually just right.

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« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2006, 12:21:14 PM »
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Keith,

        Why dont you buzz my house low altitudewise here in North Bergen(I live onky one block away from North Hudson Park)!!! Let me know in PM what your N number is and when you might do so ???? 8)


Heh, can't take the bait on that one, sadly.  The only buzzing I do is during low approaches and sparsely populated areas when I have a place I can land in the event of engine failure. I do LOVE flying low, though... it's about the only time you get any sensation of covering some ground!

I love my license too much to seriously contemplate buzzing someone's house ;)

That said, I DID make my rwy selection at Lincoln Park (calm winds) yesterday based on the fact that using left traffic rwy 19 causes me to fly right over my house on the downwind!

Peter, good point about speaking fast...I'm probably right on the limit.

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« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2006, 10:43:19 AM »
Quote from: Jay
Well...I went flying at Republic as 680MA and I enjoyed listening to myself on the archives :)


Jay, I'm based out of there and I also run the feed. If you landed on RWY 14 then you flew right over the feed source on short final. Let me know when you'll be around again. (email: mmleon@yahoo.com)

Marco