You’re a single pilot flying a twin-engine airplane at 5,000 feet into Houston in thick soup (heavy cloud formation). The weather at the destination airport is at minimums: 200- and-a-half (cloud ceiling 200 feet off the ground; half-mile visibility). There’s moderate turbulence with embedded thunderstorms all around you, heavy rain, and air traffic control is barking orders in rapid-fire fashion:
“Twin Cessna 6642 Charlie, descend to 3,000, turn right heading 0-Niner-0, squawk 2456, contact approach control 126.25. Good day.” Now, from memory, since there’s no time to write all of this down, you have to repeat what was just said.
Roger, 42 ...