it was always SO NICE knowing someone had an eye on us as opposed to just, shouting on all open channels that we were in the pattern and Jake look around for traffic
just so everyone knows, there are like a couple hundred ATC’s in the country and like tens of thousands of local ‘unsupervised’ airports. Every podunk shithole in the vast midwest is six seconds from tragedy b/c of a lack of federal oversight
That’s not an unjustifiable way to be. I imagine the per capita ‘FAA keeps me alive’ factor is multiples higher in Alaska than any other state. That and a bigly appreciation for the civil air patrol. Ground school was an official high school class when I was a student.
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