Steve60J

The usual flight from the airport I used to park my airplane at to the airport I used to fly to when I went to see my family. KBAF the center ramp, departing runway 02, to KPSF, runway 32 due to wind. Now in real life the wind using runway 32 in Pittsfield can be tricky. With the hill configuration it can slip from almost straight down the runway to the right. For this I have only used runway 14 once. Many times on FS 2020 that flight, Cape Cod, or to PA is where I fly. I think today I might to a flight from Barnes KBAF to KEEN new Hampshire. IRL the Indian restaurant is amazing.

Lets rewind a bit. First you would listen to an airport, with a tower, ATIS. Automated weather. or weather recorded by the ATC person. "Westfield tower observation Delta at 18:00 zulu. Wind 125 at 7. Runway 15 in use....." this is information that changes on the hour and has other information that is current for that airport. You would never hear, "Golf to land." as the correct communication would be 1. Who you are calling 2. Who you are. 3. Where you are 4.Where you want to go. You can probably find something about the 4 w's Say I wanted to land at Westfield in a piper Cherokee N1660J. "Westfield tower this is Piper 60 Juliette 10 miles east for full stop with information Delta." I would never just say "Delta to land", as the tower would then ask who and where I was to verify that I knew my location. At a non towered airport you would not repeat that you have the ATIS. "Pittsfield traffic Piper 60 Juliette is 10 miles East runway 32 Pittsfield." (I never say "the active") Fun story: On my first 3 point cross country flight as a student. I departed Barnes in Westfield to the North. A woman traveling south thought she was entitled to call her airplane 9 Delta Echelon. The correct phonetics is 9 Delta Echo. She called the tower and they responded with the proper phonetics to have her not answer. They called me, "Cessna 5 Papa Tango descend 500 feet." I responded be removing power and descended. I saw her at 2:00 heading the other way. They would not let her enter their airspace to land, and totally flipped out on her on the importance of phonetics. So I laugh when flight sim automated ATC pronounces "Decimal" in 15 years I have never heard that.