Hello ! Are you a pilot ? Commercial pilot ? Do you have an instrument rating ?
Are you employed as a pilot ? Have you ever flown a MD80 or a DC9 or a
King Air or a Lear Jet or a Cessna Citation or a Cessna 152 or whatever ?
I would like to hear from you, please email me whenever you want !
You are not a pilot and you don't know anything about aviation ? You don't like airplanes ? Just read the following and you'll change your mind.
Probably you are wondering why I went to fly in America if I'm Italian. Well things are that Italy sucks, general aviation is almost non-existent. Fuel is too expensive, airplane rents are amazingly expensive, when you want to go for a cross-country you have to pay handling taxes at the destination any many other things that cause flying in Italy impossible for me. Probably you may want to find out exactly how much is the difference between Italy and US. Yes, after you read my beautiful comparison, you American guys must be very proud to be American, while I'll always be sick to be Italian !!
Daytona Beach International airport is a class charlie airspace, it has 3 runways, the biggest is 10,500 feet long. That is the 7L/25R runway, they also a parallel one which is shorter and is used by airplanes which make often closed traffic, or it's assigned you whenever you come from south or you depart for a southern destination. There's runway 16/34, it's a nice one because it cuts the two parallels. Runway 16 final crosses the main road of Daytona: International Speedway Boulevard. I was sitting inside a Burger King, having lunch, and I was facing outside looking the final. I didn't expect anything, and I suddenly saw a huge Delta B737 that was about to land on runway 16. That was amazing, they were LOW !! You probably could see the passengers inside the airplane !
They have a lot of traffic there in Daytona, this means that if you take your
flight training in that airport you are going to become an experienced pilot.
I've heard stories of many guys who have been flying only in uncontrolled
airports, that they are scared to go to busier airports like Daytona.
There's heavy traffic, too. You can see Delta, UsAir, Continental, American
Airlines, and in 1995 I was used to see Gulfstream International airlines,
which is a small airline that operates in Florida. It's a United Airlines
partner. The main traffic is light aircraft, because Daytona is a place for
flight training. There's an aeronautical university called
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University that
has a lot of airplanes. Usually they are a problems for us from Phoenix East,
because they take some privileges during flight and ground operations. You can
learn more about this if you want, it's very interesting,
just click here !
Do you want to see the radar precipitation image of Florida ?
For more information, please feel free to contact me at
crico@unive.it
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