REFLECTOR: "Velocity" or "Experimental"

Timothy Quinlin quinnsct at hotmail.com
Sun Jun 25 14:01:56 CDT 2006


>From: NMFlyer1 at aol.com
>Reply-To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list <reflector at tvbf.org>
>To: reflector at tvbf.org
>Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: "Velocity" or "Experimental"
>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:22:31 EDT
>
>No, it is not what "they " all want to hear. Both are legal and the 100KT
>range of "EXB" hardly provides enough information. Both are legal, use what 
>you
>want.
>There are almost as many hard nosed and ignorant controllers as there are
>pilots. We can fix the problem or be part of it. That's why I provided the
>information.
>
>Kurt

Woo hoo, Kurt!  Familiarity with what these aircraft (and many other GA 
aircraft) will do is sorely lacking.  Reminds me of a scenario where the guy 
working the sector next to mine had stopped a VFR Berkut off SMO below a 737 
off BUR.  Once they were clear he lifted the climb restriction and the next 
thing I hear is "holy s..t!".  He turned to me and asked what a Berkut was.  
"It's a Longeze on massive steroids, climbs like a homesick angel" I said.  
The Berk had gone from 4500' to 7500', real quick!

For a very long time I attempted to educate, educate, educate but there 
really wasn't much interest among most of them.  In the late 90s I posted a 
comment on the c-a list musing about that lack of familiarity.  Got a real 
nasty off-board tongue-lashing from a former controller who took offense at 
my posting that.  Go figure.

Small world, eh?

QN
(Mike Quinlin)




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