I read the NOTAM too but I was never sure if it was me or the other guys that were making it scary. Try that holding pattern around the lake when it's getting dark and you're looking for that flashing light over the powerplant. That's an adventure. never again. If I can't go in daylight, I wait for the next day. When I went, I finally was cleared to land and somebody was actually crossing/taxiing on the runway in front of me and I had to go around, in the dark. Ray New Orleans
--- Mark Langford <n5...@hiwaay.net> wrote: > That was an excellent article on AvWeb. This year > was my first landing at > SNF, and I knew the NOTAM like the back of my hand. > I ended up in a holding > pattern around the Lake because the B-2 was doing a > flyby or something, and > I seemed to be the only one at the proper speed, > altitude, or following > directions to "stay directly above the shoreline". > One guy in an RV came > busting through the circular pattern headed straight > for the runway, nowhere > near where he should have been, and going way too > fast. The controllers > were way too easy on him, but gently told him to get > in line with the rest > of us. The whole thing wasn't nearly as bad as I > thought it would be, but > I'll bet when the controller says "white > low-wing...rock your wings" there > were 5 planes rocking back and forth, and of course > when he then says "good, > I've got you" 5 different guys think he's talking to > them. That was > disconcerting. I knew my place though, as he kept > calling me "yellow > Glasair"... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > see KR2S project N56ML at > http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to > krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at > http://www.krnet.org/info.html > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
