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Readback: August 2020

Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • Skew-T diagrams are essential and invaluable tools used by a wide range of pilots, including glider pilots, offering useful information for any aircraft flight.
  • Guidance on contacting Ground control after landing emphasizes clearing the runway efficiently, typically calling Ground after a Tower handoff, or, if no handoff, after crossing the hold-short line.
  • Pilots should trust their autopilots; "helping" them can lead to counterproductive trim inputs or unexpected airspeed changes, especially when facing environmental factors like downdrafts.
  • The "RNP apch" note on RNAV (GPS) approach charts indicates a navigation specification and does not imply "Authorization Required," clarifying that these are standard RNAV (GPS) approaches.
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Finds Skew-T Useful

I must categorize Mr. Mazza’s comments in “Readback” in the May issue as uninformed. Far from being the domain of only professional meteorologists, Skew-T diagrams are an essential and invaluable tool used by glider pilots and instructors on a daily basis. They can provide useful information for any aircraft flight and I would encourage Mr. Mazza to broaden his horizons, take some competent glider instruction and learn about the Skew-T diagram. George M Tamayo Bullhead City, AZ

When Do You Call Ground?

I enjoy your magazine. The June article by Elim Hawkins, “Towered Field Ops,” contains instructions that contradict what I have been taught and have used ever since my first lesson. He advises to “Call Ground as you are exiting the runway, before the hold-short line. He thinks it might speed up the taxi.

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