[jhb] Re: EGNS
- From: "bones" <bones@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:17:55 +0100
Ah...
The mentor was training a student on Tower earlier because he thought we
might see some traffic. We did too - but four aircraft couldn't get in
contact with Tower and came over to me anyway. That started a frantic five
minutes of text messages. In the end one aircraft left because he had jammed
brakes and couldn't move. A second couldn't talk to anyone on voice and
although I was happy with text the Tower trainee wasn't - so that was two
down. The third refused to go back to tower after several attempts and
stayed on my frequency and the fourth finally got Tower as he was pulling
onto the stand. I don't think it was a very successful session for him.
Not long after he left another bunch turned up and that drew in a controller
on Tower - a newbie who then tried to commandeer all the aircraft on my
frequency. A couple of irate messages and a threat of a ban saw him shift to
Manchester but he was replaced by a Dublin guy on TWR who turned out to be
quite helpful. He knew his stuff as he was able to slot a VFR circuit
aircraft into a pattern busy with two doing IFR circuits to the ILS - not
the easiest of tasks. Mike was one and I hope he enjoyed it.
bones
-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 16 September 2007 21:41
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: EGNS
'Twasn't traffic I meant. Three controllers; there's posh!
Pleased about the traffic though.
Gerry Winskill
bones wrote:
>No story. If you sit here long enough you get the traffic.. I think
>I've had about 15 so far.
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>bones
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Gerry Winskill
>Sent: 16 September 2007 21:32
>To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [jhb] EGNS
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>Looking in at Servinfo, when able to make sporadic escapes, I see you
>are mob handed tonight. What's the story behind the event?
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>Gerry Winskill
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