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by jjuhl
Sat Jun 29, 2019 7:41 pm
Forum: Pilots
Topic: Never again on PE - share your mistakes
Replies: 441
Views: 589627

Re: Never again on PE - share your mistakes

It all comes down to the type of airspace around the airport. Why is it that you always call approach heading into FSD? Do you feel as though you have to? I just finished my PPL in May out of an uncontrolled airport (Y14) about 10 miles from FSD. My instructors always had me contact approach when i...
by jjuhl
Sat Jun 29, 2019 5:12 am
Forum: Pilots
Topic: Never again on PE - share your mistakes
Replies: 441
Views: 589627

Re: Never again on PE - share your mistakes

First day, second flight on PE, CAT-2. Called KSPB tower on what I later realized was Santa Barbara approach frequency. The controller directed me to contact KSPB tower on the correct frequency. Several mistakes here: - intending to contact approach but saying “San Luis tower” (blindly following the...