My instructor gave me this advice for those situations where I had to go into class C airspace:
Des Moines approach, this is Ercoupe 3802H, student pilot, over {marked
map reference} ...
I guess I'll always be a student.
It sure slows them down a bunch and gets you better TLC.
Leslie Holbrook wrote:
>
> >>Master Burkhead, Esq:
> >>I got a great big laugh out "class 1,2,3 or whatever airspace".
>
> Well, my flight instructor made a big point of exposing me to Class C,
just
> to make sure I'd want to avoid it ;-)
>
> The only time I managed to get a belly laugh out of him in the air was
the
> first time he & I passed through Bradley (BDL; Class C) space. He
didn't
> give me much warning, and wouldn't let me tell them I was a student
because
> he wanted me to experience for myself what it was like.
>
> Well, the tower came back like machine gun fire, and apparently I gave
him
> the classic deer in the headlights look. I thought he was going to wet
> himself laughing. But it sure made the point. I don't play with the
big
> boys when I can avoid it.
>
> Leslie, 3B9
>
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