This is actually an update to something I posted on R.A.Piloting -
Since then I got with my brother and he updated my recollection...
For some reason, My brother and I had flown up to Ann Arbor Mi (ARB)
and I went for a solo ride leaving my brother behind (neither one of
us remember why). I flew off westish for a while just dinking around.
After a while, it's time to head back so I turn east and off on the
horizon, I see an air****t. Ok, that's easy. I head thataway. Fly right
to the air****t. A no brainer - don't even need to get the chart out.
I've been there a couple time, I know where I'm going. 5 miles out,
call the tower, "Ann Arbor Tower, Cessna 848, 5 west..." They reply to
re****t 1 mile west (or something like that) - Ok, I re****t, they don't
have me in sight, but tell me to re****t down wind. I'm looking at the
air****t, something seems odd, but I've been pointing at the same
air****t for miles - press on. I go to turn downwind, but something
still doesn't seem right. The runways don't seem to make any sense -
but I've been heading straight here for a while - it has to be right.
I re****t downwind, and they _still_ don't have me in sight. They keep
asking where I'm at. And I'm sitting there - like - how can they not
see me, I'm on downwind for crying out loud. And I keep thinking, why
doesn't this look right. Then I look down at the air****t - wait, ****!
I'm in the pattern at Willow Run (YIP). Yank out the chart, change
frequency, "Willow tower, Cessna 848 I'm downwind at the wrong air****t
- I'm outta here. Sorry"...
The whole time, I just kept flying on - I'd seen the air****t and it
just HAD to be right. But it wasn't, I just never considered that I
might be wrong.
The funny thing is when I got back to ARB, met up with my brother, I
find out that, having nothing to do, he had talked his way into the
tower and was listening to the whole thing. When I first called in, he
tells them "that's my brother" - then when they couldn't spot me, they
are asking "what color is it?" "Do you see him?" while he's standing
there wondering what his idiot brother is up to.
Apparently though, in the end, the controllers thought it was funny
too.
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Geoff
The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
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