11-19-2019
02:53 PM
11-19-2019
02:53 PM
I was doing touch and gos in Lubbock years ago. Including me, two Skyhawks were doing touch and gos. I had just turned on final and the tower cleared the other plane to land. I wasn't about to risk asking the tower whether it had made a mistake since if it wasn't a mistake, I was about to be run into by the other plane. That was not the time for talk. It was the time to fly the plane. I made a sharp turn to the east, abandoning the pattern, and got on the radio to tell the tower what I was doing. The tower cleared me to the parallel runway. The guy in the tower forgot who he was talking with. He forgot my tail number and used the wrong one while talking with me.
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