Arriving with the tower closed — Converging traffic

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1. 0:00 NARRATOR: Chapter 19. Here is the scenario: Tower and the east runway are closed at
2. 0:04 Paine Field. Practice arriving on the west runway and making position calls to other
3. 0:09 pilots.
4. 0:11 NARRATOR: Your starting details: You are flying Evektor, registration N827EV. Your
5. 0:16 position is 10 miles east of Paine Field, indicated altitude 2500 feet. You are tuned
6. 0:23 to Paine traffic.
7. 0:27 NARRATOR: Play the pilot. At each prompt, use the ten-second pause to respond aloud or
8. 0:32 decide whether to transmit. Then compare with the example. This is simulated radio
9. 0:37 practice.
10. 0:40 NARRATOR: Scenario update: You are ten miles east, in simulated VMC. Monitor CTAF 132.95.
11. 0:45 The wind and aircraft performance in this case support the selected west runway. Use
12. 0:51 the small-aircraft east-side pattern; no Tower or Ground is operating.
13. 0:57 NARRATOR: Your task: Announce your inbound position and runway intention on CTAF.
14. 1:12 PILOT: Paine traffic, Evektor 827EV, ten miles east, inbound for runway 16R, Paine
15. 1:21 NARRATOR: Scenario update: Another aircraft is departing the reciprocal end of the west
16. 1:24 runway. Its path may conflict with yours; remain outside the pattern while assessing
17. 1:28 the traffic.
18. 1:31 OTHER PILOT: Paine traffic, Piper 927EV, departing runway 34L, Paine
19. 1:39 NARRATOR: Your task: Announce that you will remain east for the departing traffic. No
20. 1:43 one is issuing an ATC clearance.
21. 1:55 PILOT: Paine traffic, Evektor 827EV, remaining east of the airport for departing
22. 2:00 traffic, Paine
23. 2:03 NARRATOR: Scenario update: Time advances. You observe the same aircraft depart and
24. 2:07 move clear of your arrival path. Reassess the runway and traffic before joining.
25. 2:14 NARRATOR: Your task: Time advances after you check the pattern and runway. You join the
26. 2:20 small-aircraft left downwind at 1600 feet MSL.
27. 2:33 PILOT: Paine traffic, Evektor 827EV, left downwind runway 16R, full stop, Paine
28. 2:41 NARRATOR: Your task: Time advances to base with the runway and approach remaining
29. 2:46 clear.
30. 2:56 PILOT: Paine traffic, Evektor 827EV, left base runway 16R, Paine
31. 3:04 NARRATOR: Your task: Time advances to final for the selected west runway.
32. 3:18 PILOT: Paine traffic, Evektor 827EV, final runway 16R, full stop, Paine
33. 3:26 NARRATOR: Scenario update: The simulated landing is complete. This exercise assumes
34. 3:30 the named exit is safely reachable at taxi speed; it is not a landing-performance
35. 3:35 calculation.
36. 3:37 NARRATOR: Your task: You exit at Alpha Four, entirely beyond the runway holding-position
37. 3:42 marking.
38. 3:52 PILOT: Paine traffic, Evektor 827EV, clear of runway 16R at Alpha Four, Paine
39. 4:01 NARRATOR: Chapter debrief: Arrival ends clear of the west runway. Self-announcements
40. 4:05 were not clearances, and no closed Tower or Ground was invented.
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