How to Land at a Towered Airport | Class D Arrival | VFR Radio Comms

Here's a very basic early morning arrival at a not very busy Easton Airport in Maryland, as an illustration of Class D radio procedures.
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[@akaHarvesteR]

I love how the other caller later on gets his easts and wests mixed up. Glad to know it isn't just me :D

[@thebadgerpilot]

Very common! I usually look at the bottom of the DG as a cheat

[@Godzilla032]

I like how it was left in there right at the end 😄

[@deathby1808]

Going from non towered airports to a class D airport at first was intimidating, but I have a lot of fun flying into them and talking to towers now

[@androidphone1901]

Step 1) Squawk 7700 Step 2) reduce power to idle Step 3) full flaps Step 4) slip w/ rudder to the floor Step 5) land in displaced threshold Step 6) run out of cockpit screaming "bees!! bees!! They're ripping my flesh off! Your weapons are useless against them!!"

[@flightinsight9111]

Haha!

[@Cosme422]

POH says no slips to landing with flaps deployed

[@androidphone1901]

@@Cosme422 Depends on the aircraft. For example, Cessna 150L with full 40degress flaps and Full Forward Slip is not recommended, but not prohibited ...elevator/horizontal stabilizer buffetting may occur... I can tell you from experience it definitely does! 😉

[@devindb757]

It’s important to note the tower instruction “report 3 mile left base” can be a very confusing instruction is actually not standard phraseology by ATC.

[@joshm8747]

Doing my first towered landing in a few days and this really helped me get down the comms, thank you!

[@gabrielfurr550]

This really helps a couple days ago I was freaking out bc it was my first time calling a tower without instructor help !!

[@thebadgerpilot]

I was lucky enough to start my training at a pilot controlled but end at a Class D towered field. I'm comfortable with radios, but it's amazing hearing how a little red button on the yoke will tongue tie some of the most articulate people! It really is as simple as this video makes it out to be.

[@Godzilla032]

They do say there is a certain percentage of IQ points you loose after pressing that button. I dont have many to begin with so it can be a real struggle 😅

[@RobinReedCoach]

Same here.

[@JoshuaTootell]

People don't want to screw up, especially when safety is closely tied to using the correct terminology.

[@Max_Janszen]

Im sure it's easy, but the idea of everyone within 30nm hearing me botch everything is worse than a firey death, at the time.

[@benjaminmartz3595]

I usually learn more from the comments than the vlog. Love the channel.

[@d.n.3652]

I sometimes forget some people never done their training at a towered airport. I did all my training at a towered airport. It felt weird going to a non-towered airport for the first time. I didn’t have the luxury of the tower sequencing me and keeping me away from traffic. I couldn’t be lazy and needed to have more situational awareness to avoid traffic. There was also a lot more talking, as I had to call out all of my legs and do position call-outs

[@njbpaul]

Nice demonstration. I get alot of practice like this using pilot edge. Sometimes you can get something different from what you expect.. I like flying in from different airports to get different traffic pattern entry.

[@ZBA1]

Great video. Would be nice if you could make a video on a very busy class d airport with sequencing and all that good stuff 👍

[@jakew9887]

Great presentation. Thanks

[@njbpaul]

Can you please do a video on how to report the correct location to tower. I had an incident on pilot where the controller said I didn't report an accurate location. I thought I did. But I didn't want to argue.

[@johnopalko5223]

I usually just give my bearing from the airport to the nearest 45 degrees using the name of the octant: north, northeast, east, etc. Try to get your distance within a couple of miles. If you want to remove all doubt, find a VFR reporting point and fly over it. They're marked on the sectional chart with little pennants with the name underlined. For example: "Aurora Tower, Cherokee 12345, Yorkville, with Juliet. Full stop." "Cherokee 345, Aurora. Enter left base runway 27. Report Sugar Grove." "Left base 27, report Sugar Grove. 345." Now, after that exchange, my girlfriend turned to me and said. "You're not with Juliet. You're with Lori!" That's when I knew she was finally relaxing and enjoying herself.

[@njbpaul]

@@johnopalko5223 lol that’s a good one

[@tbone1212]

@@johnopalko5223 you had me all the way to the end 😁 its exactly what I would say.👍Keep the blue side up.

[@johnopalko5223]

@@tbone1212 We used to joke like that all the time. Flying up from the south, I always flew over Yorkville because all you had to do was follow the highway north and it put you on a perfect left base for 27. As a crosscheck on my pilotage I'd dial in a radial from the Joliet VOR and, when the needle centered, I knew I was over the right little town. The first time I did that with Lori as a passenger I pointed to the omni head and told her it was a "Yorkville detector." She knew me well enough to be pretty certain I was kidding, but I could tell she wasn't quite sure.

[@Kris-ru5ue]

Re Atis ....when large chunks of info are thrown at me fast without a pause it is so difficult to absorb it. :(

[@zachbarker5354]

How do you know when your 3 miles out? What are you using to know that?

[@jamiefowler5255]

GPS distance to the airport

[@greenmonkey7305]

How many other pilots have been around untowered airports for so long you forgot how to communicate with ATC and even obtain basic flight following? 😐😐😐🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️ I stopped at a towered airport for the first time last month and got flight following to go to New Orleans from there and I swear to God it sounded like I was asking clearance to go to outer space or something. I don’t know what I asked for on the radio but it was not in the appropriate pattern of what’s normal for average flight following. ATC flat out asked me “what on earth are you asking for now?” 55 hours of my 1270 total flight hours were all in uncontrolled airspace. Those 55 hours were for training only.

[@ibrahimmhjoub6171]

What did u mean by info T

[@surge6231]

Weather from towered airports is designated a letter to differentiate old weather from the current weather. I’m his case, he had information T, or Tango. You are supposed to say what information you have so the tower knows you have the current weather and not old weather

[@sigbauer9782]

Wow- VERY basic! KMQY is never like this.

[@flemmingstelling8079]

Nice, however, with no traffic you could have just requested a long landing instead.

[@jakew9887]

What is a long landing? Thanks

[@flemmingstelling8079]

@@jakew9887 Basically landing some 2/3's down the runway, instead of landing on the numbers and taxiing to the end of the runway

[@jakew9887]

@@flemmingstelling8079 Thanks

[@Cosme422]

I’m in the east. No you’re west. LOL!!, 😂😂😂 so you’re traveling north OK turn left heading west to the driver side or east to the passenger side. LOL!!!!!