Sunday, August 5, 2012

Lazy Radar Operator

Last friday we did a short flight "simulation". Each of us started in Seattle, Boeing 777s. My callsign was Speedbird 395. The ATC personnel weren't pretty cooperative with those who had trouble operatin their plane. Thankfully I handled fine. Problem for me was the lag. Somehow my computer didn't like me taking off at KSEA, so it kinda lagged my X-Plane. Meanwhile the ATC was yelling every 5 minutes "Speedbird (number), RADAR SERVICES TERMINATED!" I and a friend were the only 2 to not have experienced that. The whole exercise was pretty much disorganised, but fun. Hopefully we'll have more of such exercises. :P

Meanwhile, here's a picture of a backpack and some maps I brought along on one of my flights in a Cessna 172.
Nice map I have there.