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Gentlemen,
Here
is an excellent perspective from an aircraft controller about the unfortunate
loss of Mr. Durr. Ron Galbraith is building an ES and has been quite
active on the yahoo group ES site. He posted his message to that
site.
Bryan
Burr
N132BB
Super
ES
I don't know if any of you have been
keeping track on the LML about
this crash, but I'd like to try to give you
guys some insight as to
"real world" stuff as it relates to flying into or
near weather
systems. First off, I'm not telling you what
I think happened in
this crash, but I'm telling you what it's really like to
fly in the
enroute environment. There are some comments
over on the other list
that are from some very very unimformed
folks.
When you are talking to a controller in the
enroute environment, it
is highly likely that that controller is not a
pilot, and may have
never been in a small airplane. There is no
requirement for them (us)
to steer you around the weather. It is
up to you to ask for vectors
around the weather we see. I can
tell you for a fact that if you are
flying towards a thunderstorm, the
controller will tell you something
like "N5ES, I'm showing moderate
precip at 12 o'clock 10 miles,
extends 10 miles along your route of
flight". If you say "roger"
and nothing
else, the controller isn't going to do anything else for
you. He is
assuming you know what you are doing. He might even
comment to the
controller next to him about the idiot flying through
the weather......yes
that idiot is you. You must relay the
seriousness of the
situation to the controller, and he will do what
he/she can to help you out,
but this is the key. I can't stress enough
to all of you that you are
in charge up there, and if you are getting
into a situation you are not
confortable with, refuse the clearance if
they try to vector you into
weather that you can't handle. If you
need to make a
quick 180, then do it now and explain why later. There
isn't a FSDO
anywhere that will take your license if what you did was
an emergency
situation. Don't kill yourself and your passengers just
because
you are afraid of the ATC police. The controllers want to
avoid
turning anyone in for ANY type of violation, and they are not the
police. If you are turned in for a violation in the enroute
environment, then it's most likely out of the controllers hands.
It's
alot more paper work for us than the pilots in that case
anyway.
Please, ask for help. Don't hold back,
because you might be
embarrased of what you say. If
you need help, ask, no DEMAND it.
If you want more than just ATC
help, then ask for help with an
experienced pilot, and they will find
someone to come over and assist.
They have a computer right
there that the supervisor can access every
pilot in the ARTCC, and find one
right now with the experience you
need.
All of the ARTCC's now have
Nexrad weather displayed on the radar
scope. It is possible that the
controller doesn't have it set
properly, or might even have it turned
off. It's that time of year
guys........fly safe out
there.
This comment has nothing to do with the Legacy
crash, it is my
personal comments, and meant to make you stay out of
trouble, or at
least something to think about.
Ron Galbraith
LNCE
- N5ES
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