Short Final: For Your Viewing Pleasure

I overheard this exchange with the local TRACON, NorCal Approach, while flying along California’s central valley: NorCal Approach: Cessna XXXX maintain at or above three thousand. Cessna XXXX: Maintain at…

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I overheard this exchange with the local TRACON, NorCal Approach, while flying along California’s central valley:

NorCal Approach: Cessna XXXX maintain at or above three thousand.

Cessna XXXX: Maintain at or above three thousand, Cessna XXXX.

NorCal Approach: Cessna XXXX, for your viewing pleasure, at your two o’clock, a heavy C-5 at two thousand.

Cessna XXXX: Excellent, my tax dollars at work, Cessna XXXX.

Erik Klavon
San Francisco, CA