Originally Printed on 21-Feb-00
From our "we can only afford one landing
today" file...
While trying to work touch-and-goes with a student
in the traffic pattern at Daggett Airport, we were acutely aware of a pair
of regional airline Fokker jets practicing the VOR approach to an
intersecting runway. Each time they executed a missed approach, but we
would hold short just in case they landed.
Finally, I keyed the mic
and asked them if they were ever going to land.
Their curt
response: "Negative, the company said they don't mind buying
the gas,
but we have to buy our own tires."