[Magnum44]

Listening, I think they are both making a mountain out of a mole hill. As a pilot for over 40 years, I have never heard of such a definition that requires turning base at the numbers but I do this all the time (it’s a navy thing) except you don’t square off the base and final legs. Instead you smoothly round out your 180 to final. For a power off landing, or practicing engine out, that will generally land you in the first hundred feet of the threshold.

The FAA definition of short approach is Used by ATC to inform a pilot to alter his/her traffic pattern so as to make a short final approach. So she is reading way too much into it. He did nothing wrong from a flying perspective. Maybe could have communicated his intentions better. Controlled fields are not the best place to practice emergencies if the tower is in a policing mood.

This is probably more about the pilot being white and conservative and the controller being a person of color trying to establish her authority than anything else.

[SaveFerris]

Remember the days of SAPP? 🤣😂😅😜

[Delta 21]

This is probably more about the pilot being white and conservative and the controller being a person of color trying to establish her authority than anything else.

Thats wacis!