Yesterday I had to fly into a class C airport for some avionics work. When it was time to leave, I called ground and they responded with "Standby". I waited about five minutes, then tried again and they gave me the particulars to taxi. Do you think they forgot about me? Was five minutes a reasonable amount of time to wait? Did I wait too long. Had a line guy standing in front of the plane to marshal me out the whole time looking irritated.
Things went pretty smoothly after that except that they had me hold short of the runway at the end and kept releasing other planes to depart at a taxiway just before the full length. I was thinking maybe because I called them back after I was told to standby. Ended up being about 20 minutes from startup to departure.
Things went pretty smoothly after that except that they had me hold short of the runway at the end and kept releasing other planes to depart at a taxiway just before the full length. I was thinking maybe because I called them back after I was told to standby. Ended up being about 20 minutes from startup to departure.
