RDU or GSO?

[Chris0516]

I heard an aviation call on an RDU(Raleigh-Durham Int.) frequency. But the pilot was referring to GSO(Charlotte-Douglas Int.) Approach. Is that sort of mistake common among pilots?

 

[cmjonesinc]

GSO is PTI in Greensboro. Charlotte Douglas is CLT.

 

[Chris0516]

GSO is PTI in Greensboro. Charlotte Douglas is CLT.

I got that part mixed up. But what about the question?

 

[cmjonesinc]

Now that I have no idea about haha. I try to listen to aircraft but it's all greek to me.

 

[nd5y]

I try to listen to aircraft but it's all greek to me.

Then you need the Pilot/Controller Glossary.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/#pubs

 

[Chris0516]

Then you need the Pilot/Controller Glossary.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/#pubs

I bookmarked the page. So, I can read it at length, later.

 

[chrismol1]

I've heard plenty of pilots refer to their current cold call as the previous approach control, the previous sector, the ATC center above them and everything in between

 

[spacellamaman]

Pilots are people too, they say things no less dumb than us mere terrabound mortals.

 

[n4jri]

Could the pilot have been transiting from RDU to GSO or vice-versa? There are circumstances where a pilot goes from departure at one airport to approach at another without contacting the ARTCC or going out of radar control. I think that the Airport/Facility Directory for your area might have info on that type of thing.

But if your pilot is doing something dumb, I have a good story from your state. While at an airshow at Seymour Johnson AFB (GSB), I heard a private pilot calling the legs to land about 10mi away at Wayne County Airport on their CTAF. In the other headphone, I could hear the tower at Seymour (where he actually was) trying to call him and get no response whatsoever. He was tuned to CTAF for the puddle-jumper airport, oblivious to the fact that he was circling an Air Force base with a massive crowd on the apron, along with a lot of big airplanes you'd never see at his destination. Fire trucks went out and blocked him on a taxiway, and he was kept in custody until the show was over. Always wanted to know how this might've affected his license.

73/Allen (N4JRI)