Cessna 150 Night Landing Norfolk (KORF) Virginia Airport

This is a video of me landing at night in a Cessna 150. Sorry about the night shot, it was the only way to see everything. This flight was for my long cross country for my commercial pilot training. I flew from Salisbury, MD (KSBY) to Wilmington, NC (KILM), to Norfolk, VA (KORF) and returned to Salisbury.

Notice the horrible nose-wheel shimmy haha. The plane is old.

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[jmm663d6]

Did I hear the ATC tell a plane to pull into position and hold as the C150 was coming across the threshold?

[pilotboy17]

Yea...he definitely did say that when I was right over threshold. It baffled me for a bit.

[vbdenny]

Just for a heads up, Norfolk is ORF, not KORF

[pilotboy17]

You, sir, are half correct. Being a flight instructor, I would hope I knew something about this.

The ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) 4-letter airport identifier codes uniquely identify individual airports worldwide.

Usually, the first two letters of ICAO codes identify the country. In the continental USA, however, codes normally consist of a 'K' followed by the airport's IATA code.

[vbdenny]

well thank, guess you learn something new everyday. At first I thought you might be thinking of an LA radio station. Hey, nice landing by the way.

[pilotboy17]

Thanks! Lol...Yea, it does sound like a radio station, doesn't it?

[matty1992101]

no, they are literally built into the ground, with an incredibly hard cover over them. they don't have lines of little lamp light bulbs along a runway :P

[SenorSpode]

@pilotboy17 Right on. All US airports have FAA IDs, not all of them have ICAO IDs. For those with ICAO IDs as well, sometimes the FAA IDs don't largely correspond with ICAO IDs, sometimes they do. And there's a lot of airports that don't have ICAO codes at all, just FAA. And for those who don't know: Alaska and Hawaii airports have ICAO codes that begin with P, not K. Good call, pilotboy!

[steveowens85]

@roofy2k You can LUAW an aircraft once the plane is at the landing threshold, the plane on the ground is aware of the aircraft about to land its legal, you just cant luaw a plane behind a heavy on the same runway.

[dodger202020]

The position and hold instruction was perfectly ok. He was already at the threshold and wants the plane on the runway as soon as possible so when the 150 is clear they can send the citation up. Absolutely nothing wrong with that and, in fact, is a good call to keep things moving smoothly.

[ChrizRockster]

@pilotboy17

Although you dont need much wake seperation from a C150, this isn't the best ATC call I've heard.... thats when you find out who your friends are lol.

[737FSPilot]

Great landing!

[N8229Y]

Very nice!!

[TheBoeing144]

Very nice landing i live in the hampton roads area love that airport and its small and has very well trained pilots and atc

[lphilthompson]

Probably not exactly legal, but I would guess ATC authorized P&H well knowing that he could not do so quickly enough to be a factor in the 150's landing . . .

[houstonfly]

@stealhty1 --Actually it is called anticipated separation. I believe it was a citation which takes a second or two to spool up and get the plane moving. Perfectly legal, perfectly safe (happens 1000x per day). There was no issue with the instructions.

[stealhty1]

YEAP position and hold as you was about to cross the thresshold,

atc controller must go back to remedial training,as they had sent me in my past