Recent content by MarkZ

Simple. Higher separation standards.

lame

Speaking of Illinois airports, LOT (Lewis University) is a madhouse weekdays at around 8 AM, and every two to three hours after.. In southern Illinois, Pickneyville used to be very busy (SIU flight students use this airport), but nowhere near the 7-8 planes you’d see in LOT’s pattern.

Shame he’s out of business. I bought one of his ANR headsets, it was comparable to a DC ANR, but at almost half the cost at the time. Got a cool camouflage design to go with it too. As for the headset, it was comfortable and felt a bit lighter than my original DC. Sure, it’s not a Bose. But...

Wow, talk about having a bad day. I'm pretty sure that was a career ender. If I am talking to a VFR aircraft that is flying in conflict with any other aircraft, I will issue traffic. If not in sight, I typically issue one more call and advise "target appears likely to merge." If still not in...

Of the ten facilities on that list, only four are not “consolidated” TRACON’s. See if you can guess which are which.

VFR movements are not counted the same as IFR movements in a radar environment. When we ask pilots to request flight following, we aren’t doing it for a traffic count. We are doing it to help alleviate the close calls many VFR pilots aren’t aware they are part of.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/why-last-second-lane-mergers-are-good-for-traffic.amp.html Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As well you shouldn't. The key is, if you are operating with ATC, communicate your intentions as soon as possible. If I know what you need to do, I can implement a plan to let you do so while keeping Grandma Sue's* airliner out of your grill. Please understand that while my weather radar might...

I would much rather talk to an aircraft in my airspace, I don't care if the aircraft is VFR or IFR. If you want to remain IFR, plan on 16k or above. Or, if the weather is VFR, cancel, go around bravo, and reactivate IFR on the other side of the bravo. This is probably the easiest way around...

This sounds like a localized issue. Knowing the airport and procedure name would help. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Never heard of this before, but I tend to draw out my "whissskeyyy"... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

"Approach, what's our sequence?" Or "Approach, how long is the final?" Dude, just tell me you're minimum fuel already. That, and not paying attention on frequency. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm confused. Even our single staffed towers (FAA and FCT) have procedures in place should the single controller have to depart for a biological. Usually it amounted to calling the overlying radar facility to inform that controller of the departure. A subsequent return call returns operations to...

This made snopes as well! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk