Here it comes:
Only the Lear pilot, who was lost, was operating VFR. The PWK tower has a BRITE display and should have been jumping on the Lear a lot earlier.
Does the proposed "gap" force them to hire more controllers?
Wait 'til they have the slew of VLJs out there.
On a cloud-filled, rainy fall evening last September, a Learjet inexplicably passed its turn for landing at Palwaukee Municipal Airport and sped toward a LOT Polish Airlines 767 set to land at O'Hare.
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To Joseph Bellino, union chief for O'Hare tower controllers, it underscores a significant and systemic safety problem in the increasingly congested skies around O'Hare.
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Bellino says the FAA needs to mandate occasional gaps in the long lines of planes landing at or departing from O'Hare to create a safety buffer in case of deadly mistakes by Palwaukee fliers or controllers to the north.
http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=290746
Only the Lear pilot, who was lost, was operating VFR. The PWK tower has a BRITE display and should have been jumping on the Lear a lot earlier.
Does the proposed "gap" force them to hire more controllers?
Wait 'til they have the slew of VLJs out there.
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