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Sat, 04 November 2023 19:02 |
Charles Brown
Messages: 119
Registered: January 2022
Location: Coppell, TX
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Flew into/out of DFW yesterday.
Learned a few things:
-- In an MU-2 you sit lower than almost any other airplane. So most of what you see is a sea of concrete. Also, the engines and tip tanks hide crossing taxi traffic.
— 170 knots is plenty on approach; if you can do that until you're 3 miles from the airport, you're golden with Approach and Tower.
— There is no set routine for light planes. They get mixed in with jets on an ad hoc basis, use the same runways and taxiways.
— Even though all approaches were being conducted visual, they gave me a waypoint on in IFR approach. They spelled it out and gave me plenty of time to enter it.
— It's kinda fun landing on a runway that is 6x the MU-2's landing field length. : ) So many choices!!!
— Surprisingly…. after I turned off, the Tower guy said "stay with me for taxi" (i.e., don't contact Ground). He gave me progressive taxi, which helped. I figured out that Ground Control is much busier than Tower, who basically handles only landing traffic and only on one runway.
— When I *did* get handed off to Ground, she was so busy that she didn't even give me a chance to read back my clearance before she started talking to the next plane. As a result, I failed to give way to another airplane that I didn't even hear her mention, and got chided for that.
— Departure was very smooth, it was a short taxi and a short wait with only one United jet waiting for departure ahead of us. "Caution wake turbulence", but the MU-2 was well above the jet's vortices and they turned us off the runway heading immediately.
-- Taxiway markings on a giant sea of concrete are a little different. This is taxiway WG hold short line at runway 18L.
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