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No one ever said it was a secret my friend. I’m making a joke....[emoji30] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Comon! You and I both know with the handle “radar contact” I’d assume you might be an air traffic controller lol. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I can tell your experience with radar facilities is very limited. In no way shape or form am I quoting a VFR tower operation. A VFR tower such as a Class D may use this as they don’t provide any radar service but my above example is for radar facilities. I think others here too that do a lot of...

A few of us were in the TRACON last week having a discussion while on break ... I want to hear from the pilots on this one. You check in with me and ask for the practice ILS 27 Approach. I tell you to “maintain VFR, practice approach approved, no separation services provided”. What are your...

As a controller when a VFR aircraft checks in with me and its moderately busy, i acknowledge the aircraft and state "advise prior to any altitude changes"

lol

as a controller we cannot issue an altitude that does not meet the Minimum Vectoring Altitude (MVA). to keep it simple, unless the controller deems that a pilot is incapable of climbing to the appropriate MVA (due to cloud coverage/visibility which is where they would ask you that statement that...

was it something along the lines of "are you able to maintain your own terrain and obstruction clearance between your present altitude and a climb to XXXX?"

is this at an air park? lol

We as controllers always critique pilots, our colleagues and better yet, ourselves. Your small mistake which I have huge amounts of respect for recognizing, may have been a learning experience for not only the controller but for others in that facility. After we get off position a lot of us...

You bring up the main point during the roll out phase as to why I'm inquiring about where you're parking. if I know the next taxiway will work best for a squeeze play, I most likely won't ask the aircraft where they are parking but if it's in reference to outbound taxiing aircraft whom sometimes...

that's the whole point of speaking with you..for "operational" purposes..safe flying bro

And that's what it comes down to. If you don't want to press that transmit button until you're ready, that's perfectly fine. we understand that sometimes there's only one of you in the cockpit. I believe a lot of times we get a vision that there are two crew members up front. most of the time we...

I'll be quite honest with you, if you can't "control" your aircraft while I say N12345 turn right at Foxtrot, contact ground 121.9 i don't know what to tell you..multi tasking is what most of us in aviation do. surely I'm not going to ask you what your first and last name is and what your...

I guess my question here would be is..depending on the nature of the emergency (as in what is going to require nearly all of your attention on flying the aircraft), how much time when you're flying solo are you going to have to look at your foreflight app? For those that are not receiving flight...

I can understand your frustration there when you're working with a busy approach control. I wish I knew the circumstances behind that. it's tough to move a heavy volume of airplanes around when you're near SFO & OAK. you come down to a Class Charlie (not saying it's a definite) and you may get...

I can understand what you're saying but in reference to the end of your post, the tough part is knowing in the back of our minds, it all comes down to liability. I have worked emergency aircraft but I have not worked one that has resulted in a crash or fatality. the problem comes when the...

As a controller, I have one question which I hope many of you chime in with answers to. In the event of an emergency, what can I do to best help you? Provide me with some of your possible or actual in flight emergencies. I bring this up because I have to say this...a lot of controllers are...

Delta Bravo..i'm going to have to use that. ATCS

genuinely heartbroken..Marine Captain Jeff Kuss http://airshowstuff.com/v4/2016/blue-angel-6-killed-in-crash-during-smyrna-tn-practice/ ATCS