Comments on: Fear of Taxiing http://www.leftturnwhenable.us/2009/04/23/fear-of-taxiing/ a Private Pilot in Southen California Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:13:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Vincent, from PlasticPilot.net http://www.leftturnwhenable.us/2009/04/23/fear-of-taxiing/comment-page-1/#comment-1843 Vincent, from PlasticPilot.net Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:05:46 +0000 http://www.leftturnwhenable.us/?p=231#comment-1843 Good reaction ! Flying with your instructor will put you back on track. What you can also do to prevent this in the future is to use more radio. Even if it is not a controlle area, why not say your intentions, and ask the others if there seem to be any conflict ? I learned to fly on a controlled (for us, read towered) airport and my first flights to non-controlled ones made me nervous. I had once a close encounter with someone in a tail-dragger who did not go where he said... Simple radio calls à la "Nxxx - South part of the ramp, taxiing to ABC.." should help to solve your problem... don't you think so ? My two cents... Good reaction ! Flying with your instructor will put you back on track. What you can also do to prevent this in the future is to use more radio. Even if it is not a controlle area, why not say your intentions, and ask the others if there seem to be any conflict ?

I learned to fly on a controlled (for us, read towered) airport and my first flights to non-controlled ones made me nervous. I had once a close encounter with someone in a tail-dragger who did not go where he said…

Simple radio calls à la “Nxxx – South part of the ramp, taxiing to ABC..” should help to solve your problem… don’t you think so ?

My two cents…

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