NOTEO 060001

060001 AMERICAN PILOTS

Flying into an airport without even attempting to call the ground station, or make a broadcast to traffic is STUPID and DANGEROUS

Valid til Americans smarten up, or surrender to Canadian's higher intellect

So I'm at work the other night, expecting an American connector flight in about 10 minutes, and a Cessna 172 (small plane) in from the other direction at about the same time. I've got the runway lights on for the American's approach, and I'm talking with the 172 for the first time. I look out the window in the direction of the approach for Runway 09, and there's a landing light, and it's not that far away. Low and behold there's the American on RADAR on a 7 mile final having never called me. To make things nice and safe I ask the 172 to come around to land on Runway 09 instead of his intended Runway of 27. Long story short the American enters the zone, lands, taxis clear of all runways, parks, and THEN calls to cancel his IFR flightplan all within about 4 minutes.

Here's the breakdown for those of you who are out there like "WTF is this guy talking about?". First off, IFR aircraft are required to call 5 minutes prior to entering any control zone, entering a control zone, final and clearing all runways. NONE OF WHICH HE DID. This is like driving a car with out ever looking out the windows and never using turn signals(which I fully believe people do around here on a regular basis), but much much faster, and far far worse. That's the recipe for an Aluminum shower. Pilots out there, I'm sure you understand... For the rest of you, this particular flight crew is a combination of genetic waste (most probably a result of generations of inbreeding), and American's inherant ability to defy any and all intellectual propositions.

I'm out, Cheers

"Stop confusing me with your Space-age, Techno babble, Attila the Hun"- Captian Brannigan