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Old 04-27-2019, 10:52 AM
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RV's. Gotta love em.
So nice to hear ARTCC "Say Type Experimental..." after giving traffic alert and the little RV speeding up and avoiding their standard certificated brethren.
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Old 04-27-2019, 11:18 AM
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I was flying back into Tampa today IFR after a 2-day trip up in Alabama and for the first time ever I was given a speed reduction. But not once but twice— both times for 30 knots!!
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Old 04-27-2019, 11:39 AM
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I was flying back into Tampa today IFR after a 2-day trip up with in Alabama and for the first time ever I was given a speed reduction. But not once but twice? both times for 30 knots!!
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Old 04-27-2019, 12:22 PM
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I used to use 'Experimental RV-7 ...' and was once told to skip the 'Experimental' part and just use 'RV-7' as FAA actually has all the Vans models listed as A/C Type Designators per FAA Order 7360 ID, page C137.

Canada (per ICAO) has similar.
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Old 04-27-2019, 01:26 PM
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Indeed. Drop the "experimental" nonsense. Useless. Type is useful. Don't bother quoting the FARs about that first contact with ATC. They don't care either.

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Old 04-27-2019, 01:33 PM
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...and the little RV speeding up and avoiding their standard certificated brethren.
Isn't that a great feeling? Last week my little 140 HP Lancair had a 60 Kt overtake on a 160 HP C-172. Yup, I blew his doors off when I passed him!
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Old 04-27-2019, 01:34 PM
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Indeed. Drop the "experimental" nonsense. Useless. Type is useful. Don't bother quoting the FARs about that first contact with ATC. They don't care either.

John Siebold
Since my oplims state it, I always preface my call to a tower and only a tower with “experimental” and only on my initial call. There is no requirement to preface a call to any other ATC facility. In my experience flying IFR in the system, which I do regularly and on every cross country, using “RV 728TT” is more than adequate as ATC is generally well aware of the RV line’s performance (the RV-12 might be an exception).
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Old 04-27-2019, 01:35 PM
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Best one I heard was he is off your right side, about a hundred knots of closure; appr was talking to a small ga plane warning them about me on my way to my home field.
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Old 04-27-2019, 01:42 PM
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On my trip into the US last month, I think I only had one controller consistently include experimental when talking to me. It definitely wasn't the one at Billings vectoring me for arrival between an A319 and a B712. He kept on passing me as a Cirrus to the jets. Guess I was coming in a little fast. I corrected them on next contact, I don't want to be labelled as a Cirrus - such a downgrade.

Most places were happy to refer to me simply as an RV9.
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Old 04-27-2019, 01:59 PM
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the controller comes back to you confused as to what type of aircraft the "Army" is flying today.

"Romeo Victor" seems to confuse them just as much, at first.
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