Originally Posted by
BobbyLeeSwagger
True, and I'll happily do it. Its gonna be an adjustment. I'll have to pretend that fully configured at the FAF is normal, and that ramp headsets work, and that it doesn't take 20 minutes to get out of the box..LAX has forever ruined me it terms of what I think is supposed to be normal.
If north ground said..
"Compass 123 heavy, follow the unicycler left to right , 24L, where he goes, you go..."
Without hesitation I would simply say, "Roger, we'll follow the unicycler..."
The whole fully configured and Vapp by FAF is soooo obnoxious. I hate how I have to pretend I'm something I'm not when I go to MSP/STL.
Also as a serious note SLIP stands for seniority list instructor pilot or something like that. It's a line pilot that works as an sim instructor.