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Velocity173
Took a tour of Atlanta TRACON today. Old friend works there. Amazing how big it is. Almost like a center with over a dozen controllers working sectors. Things that we didn't have in the old days:
- Wireless headset. Pretty cool.
- Aircraft predicted track. Nice feature.
- Bearing and distance to another airport. We had that but way more user friendly now.
- ID tag colors for departures, inbounds & overflights.
- ABCDEF weight categories????
- Exact distance between aircraft on final. Nice.
- All digital approach plates. No reaching for paper in the chart bin.
- No VFR strips. All info on the tag stratch pad.
- Majority of the traffic inbound on STARs. No vectors.
- System actually knows difference between ADS-B traffic vs non ADS-B.
- One second refresh rate.
- "Snitch patch" reporting.
Good time in the Atlanta area. No way I'd work down there with the road traffic but it's "big time" ATC so I guess they put up with it.
- Wireless headset. Pretty cool.
- Aircraft predicted track. Nice feature.
- Bearing and distance to another airport. We had that but way more user friendly now.
- ID tag colors for departures, inbounds & overflights.
- ABCDEF weight categories????
- Exact distance between aircraft on final. Nice.
- All digital approach plates. No reaching for paper in the chart bin.
- No VFR strips. All info on the tag stratch pad.
- Majority of the traffic inbound on STARs. No vectors.
- System actually knows difference between ADS-B traffic vs non ADS-B.
- One second refresh rate.
- "Snitch patch" reporting.
Good time in the Atlanta area. No way I'd work down there with the road traffic but it's "big time" ATC so I guess they put up with it.
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