FS ATC never fails to distinguish itself
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:29 amYesterday took the first step in my third world tour. The first leg was a not so tranquil jaunt from Naples LIRN to Frankfurt EDDF. Strong winds, turbulence and all the nine yards in trying to convince my Pilatus PC-12 to cease and desist. 
Neither I nor my trusty plane did and, seen that it's my first time on EDDF, asked the ATC to vector me. The simulated people in the tower handed me a ILS procedure on the 25L.
Up to this very point, all had gone perfect. The Approach gives me its last instruction and... I have suddenly a hunch. A POWERFUL hunch. And following my instincts do not switch on the tower. After all, after having broke clouds the approach could have been finished manually, seen the good visibility.
As I get in visual with the runway, I discover that my hunch was very real. An Airbus 340 was tranquilly parked straddling the runway.
So I disconnect the AP way out and execute a tranquil manual landing OVER the behemoth. After all I'm flying a plane that has no need of all the runway's length.
In the heat of the moment I forgot to take an airborne shot, but remedied after having stopped the plane.
As you can see the damn thing occupied the whole start of the runway, ad seconds after I took this shot it disappeared in thin air, like it was never here.
Surely due to some AFCAD mess-up (that I'll have to control later today or tomorrow) the ATC put that plane there and forgot about it. Only my hunch saved me from being handed a go around because the default ATC cannot be trusted in lacing its own shoes.
After having taken the shot contacted the ground and taxied to the parking while a light rain began falling. Parked my plane, just in time to go in the tower and say a pair of thing to the Ground controllers.
To those of you who could object that I should have go around because this is what happens in real life I remember that in rel life no ground controller would let a plane of any kind in that position. So there.
Neither I nor my trusty plane did and, seen that it's my first time on EDDF, asked the ATC to vector me. The simulated people in the tower handed me a ILS procedure on the 25L.
Up to this very point, all had gone perfect. The Approach gives me its last instruction and... I have suddenly a hunch. A POWERFUL hunch. And following my instincts do not switch on the tower. After all, after having broke clouds the approach could have been finished manually, seen the good visibility.
As I get in visual with the runway, I discover that my hunch was very real. An Airbus 340 was tranquilly parked straddling the runway.
So I disconnect the AP way out and execute a tranquil manual landing OVER the behemoth. After all I'm flying a plane that has no need of all the runway's length.
In the heat of the moment I forgot to take an airborne shot, but remedied after having stopped the plane.
As you can see the damn thing occupied the whole start of the runway, ad seconds after I took this shot it disappeared in thin air, like it was never here.
Surely due to some AFCAD mess-up (that I'll have to control later today or tomorrow) the ATC put that plane there and forgot about it. Only my hunch saved me from being handed a go around because the default ATC cannot be trusted in lacing its own shoes.
After having taken the shot contacted the ground and taxied to the parking while a light rain began falling. Parked my plane, just in time to go in the tower and say a pair of thing to the Ground controllers.
To those of you who could object that I should have go around because this is what happens in real life I remember that in rel life no ground controller would let a plane of any kind in that position. So there.
