Visibility was maybe five miles or so, but I went flying anyway. Judging by the chatter on Unicom (122.8), there were not a lot of airplanes up. The FAA was working; I could hear Flight Check call out out that it was shooting approaches at some airport. The FAA operates a variety of airplanes to test and verify instrument approaches. Flight Check has to check every new approach before it can be used and they then fly them again from time to time.
It was pretty nasty day as far as visibility went. There was a crosswind, I shot a few landings.
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I *hate* it Flight Check comes to town. Hate. Hate. Hate.
They'll come into our airports and want to shoot every single approach multiple times. Or they'll want to hold IFR right in the middle of our departure corridor to test some VOR's radials, forcing us to divert other IFR airplanes around them and issue a billion traffic calls to all aircraft. Or, because of the nature of their work, they'll force the airport to cut off all practice approaches, which causes a huge issue for us since 90% of our traffic is Navy trainers wanting to do - naturally - practice approaches.
I know it's for safety and all, but man they're a freaking pain in the ass. We appreciate what they do, but we are very glad to see them go. There's a reason we call them "Fright" Check.
They were flying a Lear 60 yesterday on approaches into airports that can't take a Lear 60, so it must have been a pretty neat sight for the ramp rats.
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