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Re:Private Pilots Get Their Chance to Fly into Major Airports by koz1000 on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:10AM (#23870621)
Back in April I spotted a Cessna 182 doing some late night touch-and-gos...at Chicago ORD.

https://imgur.com/a/dIWXfij

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Re:Private Pilots Get Their Chance to Fly into Major Airports by griffinkelly on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:28AM (#23870817)
I wonder if you could still get away with this right now?
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Re:Private Pilots Get Their Chance to Fly into Major Airports by koz1000 on Friday July 17, 2020 @10:54AM (#23871179)
Probably. Here’s someone that did it 4 years ago (although it was just a full-stop taxi and back out). It just takes some polite asking to TRACON on a hopefully quiet night.

https://youtu.be/vipvtaRbQho

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Re:Private Pilots Get Their Chance to Fly into Major Airports by EPiXNiCROS on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:21PM (#23872185)
Private Pilots have always been able to fly into major airports.
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Re:Private Pilots Get Their Chance to Fly into Major Airports by psim1 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @12:53PM (#23908483)
Yes, at ATC’s discretion. Which you won’t receive, at least not cheerfully, at a busy airport.
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