Ifatc hub starter pack

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I’m not being horrible here, but this is the starter pack for someone that comes in to a ifatc hub for the first time:

Someone with their callsign as something 007
Someone that doesn’t bother tuning into atis
Someone that shows up in a tm-390 despite atis saying no light aircraft
About 50 planes landing on the same runway that everyone is trying to takeoff on when there is 3 or more runways
Someone with the callsign of a plane that crashed in the past

This is what you can expect every day on expert server after about 30 minutes at the hub for that day.

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That’s not considered light by IFATC lol

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Have to prevent this “don’t fly to the hub”

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But it often says no light aircraft accepted at this time

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TBM isn’t a light aircraft.

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Unless it’s a major intl airprot I don’t, because this just chaos

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Yes the TBM is not light though, well it’s not considered anyways!
Happy Flying :D
Cign

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The crashed plane thing is a bit of a dilemma, and if I remember right the reason that the mods decided not to report people for that was because some people could be paying tribute to those flights.

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IFATC warned me for being in a TBM because it was a light aircraft according to them

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Well, officially speaking, it is not classified as “light”

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Some people get warnings about it but others don’t 🤷‍♂️

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Cessna 208 and TBM aren’t light aircraft, that is the official classification.

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Here’s your answer for the TBM.

And for the rest - just don’t fly into the hub on busy days or FNFs. It’ll be a much nicer experience if you don’t like too much traffic and chaos.

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The only light aircraft are these:

C172, SR22, XCub, Spitfire, P38

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Alright fair enough, but I got warned to change it once when trying to planespot on expert, it was at jeddah a few months ago I think

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If you have any problems with any IFATC DM a mod or talk to the controller directly.

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Anyways, back to your original post.

Nothing wrong with that.

There’s always D-ATIS.

Nothing wrong with that either, we aren’t supposed to report people with those callsigns.

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Wow, why are we arguing about what’s a light aircraft and what’s not. We had an answer so let’s stick to it. As said above a TBM is not a light aircraft. If an IFATC controller tells you you are light then send a message to a supervisor.

Unfortunately the things said in the first post do happen everyday, but it’s part of learning as a pilot.

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