Today ATC asked me to keep the speed up, then gave me a series of heading instructions so bizarre that I was tempted to ask the controller if he was attempting to write his name on the radar. I was literally zigzagged back and forth across the normal inbound route, with occasional backtracking. Once, immediately after I had been told to fly direct towards a landmark following a road, another aircraft reported over my destination landmark, and was told to follow my same road in the opposite direction. It was only five miles away, almost the same altitude, so that made me a little antsy until ATC turned us both in new directions.
We were number three on base when number two was asked to go around, so I got to cut the corner a little and land. I'm really starting to believe my joke about the controller trying to create a pattern on the radar.
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I'm sure I recognise that code from KoL :)
Crowded skies??!!
Argh! The accidentally-deleted comment went a little something like this:
LOL! Someone (else) spent WAY too much time on the NES when she was young(er!)
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BTW, wondering why my blog is the only one in your list with an * next to it? Should I be worried?
I knew that title would not be lost on my readership. :)
The star appears next to blogs that have been updated in the last 24 hours, but it's not very clever and often fails to star newly updated blogs.
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