curtis
Well Known Member
I flew into Jefferson City, MO airport yesterday to visit my son. While I was waiting on him to arrive to pick me up I stuck up a conversation with the young line-service guy. He had already completed his private pilot and was currently working on his commercial rating. The item that sort of set me back was the difference of opinion on controlled vs uncontrolled airports. I told him that out of 550 hours on my RV I have only flew roughly 20 times into towered airports, both Class C and D, where I was controlled (told how to fly), of which 4 of those times I was attending Oshkosh. He on the other hand only liked to fly into controlled airports because he didn?t really have to think about flying since they directed him every step of the way.
I wonder if this is more of the newer younger generation pilot thinking or if this thought process is spread across all age groups and experience levels of pilots. I realize that where some people hangar their aircraft this is not a choice, but to choose a towered vs non-towered airport is an easy choice for me. As someone stated in a post earlier this weekend, landing at different airports and experiencing aviation is the joy of what I like about flying small aircraft. Many of the towered airports are over regulated and if you don?t have a ramp badge you can?t just wander around plus they have tall fences and gates that keep people from experiencing what we all get to. I am in no means scared to go into towered airports, I just choose to avoid them and I don?t feel that I have missed too much by doing so.
I?m in not trying to change how anyone flies with this post more that it is an observation that I have made where I have a huge difference of opinion. Yes, I do realize what an opinion is liked to and that everyone has one.
I wonder if this is more of the newer younger generation pilot thinking or if this thought process is spread across all age groups and experience levels of pilots. I realize that where some people hangar their aircraft this is not a choice, but to choose a towered vs non-towered airport is an easy choice for me. As someone stated in a post earlier this weekend, landing at different airports and experiencing aviation is the joy of what I like about flying small aircraft. Many of the towered airports are over regulated and if you don?t have a ramp badge you can?t just wander around plus they have tall fences and gates that keep people from experiencing what we all get to. I am in no means scared to go into towered airports, I just choose to avoid them and I don?t feel that I have missed too much by doing so.
I?m in not trying to change how anyone flies with this post more that it is an observation that I have made where I have a huge difference of opinion. Yes, I do realize what an opinion is liked to and that everyone has one.