Reminder: PIC Authority is Absolute
AVweb In 2015, I flew the Fisk arrival into AirVenture with a friend. It was typically busy but, as often happens, turned manic when we neared the runway. We had been instructed to land on the orange dot, then in mid-flare, the controller changed the plan and said extend to the next dot. His elevated tone implied a tinge of urgency and I guessed either he turned someone in behind us too soon or that same someone turned on his own or didn’t slow down. Either way, it created a tense situation. We weren’t exactly in extremis, but merely to satisfy the controller’s plan, we ...