Today I flew to a local pancake breakfast fly-in. On return to my home airport (TIA) I was about 8 miles out when the approach controller assigned me to 11L and told me a was following a C-172 and I need to slow down 40 kts. I was indicating approximately 125 kts at the time and I was over an area known for some turbulence so I asked him it I could turn 360's to get greater spacing. He informed me that there was another experimental behind me and that I would have to perform several 360's to get behind the experimental. I decided to slow up a bit and proceeded at 80 kts hoping to that there wouldn't be too much turbulence. I changed over to the tower frequency and heard that they were assigning other aircraft to 11R and asked if I could be reassigned to 11R so I could continue my long final without overtaking the C-172. My request was denied. So I slowed even more as the C-172 lumbered in at maybe 70 kts on 2 mile final.
Upon landing and taxing off the runway the trailing experimental landed. I think it was a light sport. So sequencing behind him could have been just as bad as flowing the C-172.
I was a bit frustrated. Many times I have come into the airport and the approach and tower controllers asked me to keep my speed up (160 kts descending) due to traffic behind me. But the controllers never asked the C-172 to keep his speed up at all. In fact a lumbering 2 mile 70 kt final isn't what I call good piloting.
On a good note upon landing there were six F-16's waiting to take the runway and one of the pilots was Shotgun who just had the maiden flight of his RV-8 last week (on the cover of the forum yesterday). Nothing better then to show off an RV to the F-16 pilots (really they are RV wanabee's).
Any similar experiences with slow spam cans.
Upon landing and taxing off the runway the trailing experimental landed. I think it was a light sport. So sequencing behind him could have been just as bad as flowing the C-172.
I was a bit frustrated. Many times I have come into the airport and the approach and tower controllers asked me to keep my speed up (160 kts descending) due to traffic behind me. But the controllers never asked the C-172 to keep his speed up at all. In fact a lumbering 2 mile 70 kt final isn't what I call good piloting.
On a good note upon landing there were six F-16's waiting to take the runway and one of the pilots was Shotgun who just had the maiden flight of his RV-8 last week (on the cover of the forum yesterday). Nothing better then to show off an RV to the F-16 pilots (really they are RV wanabee's).
Any similar experiences with slow spam cans.