u/applesuite

he could have used snapchat also to send images. fucking dumb mf.

I heard something over the common frequency the other day that really bothered me and I just needed to vent about it and get it off my chest.

Flying in SE Florida over the Everglades. We commonly refer to this as the practice area, where it's just a lot of GA and Student Pilots flying around, having fun, practicing, whatever.

One guy makes a call about doing holds over whatever fix and the response he gets?

"Go back to India"

Like, what the fuck? It's not even the first time. There are a lot of international pilots around here, it's South Florida ffs, I would say there well could be more international students here than American ones. It's got to be very close at least.

But all that aside, who really gives a shit? He's got as much a right to be here, flying a plane, as anyone. And not to mention, he made a perfectly good safety call and wasn't filling the airwaves with nonsense.

I hear this kind of shit semi-regularly, and it just fucking throws me every time. There's just no need for it.

To the dude that was doing the hold, I'm sorry you had to deal with that, and I'm sorry nobody (including myself) spoke up for you. I was so focused on what I was doing (having a little trouble with my approaches and holds currently) that all I could do was ignore it. It's been eating at me for days. To all the international folks out there who have to deal with this kind of shit on the reg, I am so sorry. It's not right.

We are supposed to be a community. We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is. Grow the fuck up.