I startled the snot out of a U.S. air pilot one dark night, flyin' from Charlotte to LaGuardia. We'd been flyin overland, and then hit a stretch with no lights directly below us but lights of smallish towns off to starboard, I figured we were headed up the Chesapeake. Confirmed it for myself when I picked up the lights of the Bay Bridge and Annapolis. About that time, we turned a loop, about two minutes east, four or five minutes south, a couple more minutes back west and then went back over where we'd just been.
I waited to be last to get off the plane and the poor fella had been noddin' his head and sayin' b'bye to folks for fifteen minutes when I asked what that loop back down from Annapolis was all about. It kinda stunned him, enough to make him stammer a little, but it turned out to be an ATC time-killer while they cleared out a jammed pattern in New York.
I don't know if any of the small carriers still fly the old 19-seaters with the curtains behind the pilots that have to be open for takeoffs and landings. I've spent enough other time in the right seat of small planes, but I think every passenger would benefit from the view out the front window. They'd be surprised at what pilots cue on for airport approaches. There was quite a kerfuffle ten years or so ago in New York, when the company that owned them tore down some old oil storage tanks in Queens. They'd been painted in red and white checks and were a marker on what the pilots called the "tank" approach. The controllers would call out a turn when thye got there, but they all used to anticipate it. Now they have to wait for the call and coming into LGA from the south or east sometimes requires a litle more throttle work banking over than it used to.
I recall bein' on a flight that was crabbed around so hard landin' in Boston one morning that I had a view straight down 14 at Logan from my seat in the rear, but that's another story . . .
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