I… pressed the button for the very first time in my life…
…Vatsim…
First I couldn’t hear the tower, when the Rx was blinking.
it appeared that audio was set to digital instead of speaker.
flight: Bremen - Hannover
First try: radio check. Safe to start with. Passed with an A
Then request for start up. Here things got a little wonky. I forgot to mention my aircraft, the atis letter, and my intentions. Not so good.
Tower was patient with me. Talked me through the procedure. Luckily I had written ‘newbie’ in the connection comment.
taxi via N and C. On my airport chart there was no N. Luckily zooming in all the way in LNM showed that N was actually Lane 1 on the chart.
Holding short for rwy 09. Tower read a long text that broke up. Even after say again it broke up.
I understood something one. I thought that I didn’t want to bother the tower anymore and took off, following my flight plan.
After a while I left the airspace, with the right read back this time, phew. I said ‘thanks’ at the end of my read back.
Outside the ctr I disconnected, because I felt not yet ready for en route, and arrival procedures.
After landing at Hannover I tried to find out what I had missed. It appears that the vfr-departures are documented in the pilot briefing. Tower had said leave via Sierra 1.
All in all a very educative first experience. Thanks for the tower’s patience with me😅
I will be better next time, promise.