OK thank you, so there are many SOCAL or NORCAL approach if I understand ?
OK thank you, so there are many SOCAL or NORCAL approach if I understand ?
Don't confuse the controlling authority "SOCAL Approach" with an IAP. Totally different.
It's very common in Southern California to have SOCAL Approach tell you to "contact SOCAL Approach 1xx.xx", and you'll tune and check on with SOCAL, and then get moved to the NEXT SOCAL and so it goes. Same thing happens around Dallas, TX where you switch freqs that are all called Approach while you're just transitioning the area.
Further out in Texas we hear "Fort Worth Center" but I don't think I've ever heard "SOCAL Center". "Los Angeles Center", or the like. Perhaps I'm too low and slow to get with them. I'm curious who you talk to going to Phoenix, like over Barstow... is that "LA Center?"
@lUDOVIC
Une liste de...TRACONs et..."Centers" (ARTCCs)pour votre plus grand plaisir, monsieur.
(s'il vous plaît mémoriser; il y aura un test en une heure!)
Further out in Texas we hear "Fort Worth Center" but I don't think I've ever heard "SOCAL Center". "Los Angeles Center", or the like. Perhaps I'm too low and slow to get with them. I'm curious who you talk to going to Phoenix, like over Barstow... is that "LA Center?"
Don't confuse the controlling authority "SOCAL Approach" with an IAP. Totally different.
It's very common in Southern California to have SOCAL Approach tell you to "contact SOCAL Approach 1xx.xx", and you'll tune and check on with SOCAL, and then get moved to the NEXT SOCAL and so it goes. Same thing happens around Dallas, TX where you switch freqs that are all called Approach while you're just transitioning the area.
Further out in Texas we hear "Fort Worth Center" but I don't think I've ever heard "SOCAL Center". "Los Angeles Center", or the like. Perhaps I'm too low and slow to get with them. I'm curious who you talk to going to Phoenix, like over Barstow... is that "LA Center?"
I'm curious who you talk to going to Phoenix, like over Barstow... is that "LA Center?"
I'm not seeing a list there.Here is the translation
A list of TRACONs ... and ... " Centers" ( ARTCCs ) for your pleasure , sir.
( Please remember , there will be a test in an hour !)
You will also hear a lot of references to the TRACON controllers for NorCal and SoCal as there are both a pretty good concentration of pilots in those two areas and outside of New York, NorCal and SoCal is some of the busiest and more complicated airspace in the country with a high concentration of adjacent and overlaying Bravo, Charlie, Delta and Echo airspace making the use of Flight Following and ATC services more prevalent and preferred than other areas of the country....hence a lot of discussion about their quirks and procedures here.
You must be staying pretty low and close in then. I talk to LA Center all the time, usually when I'm leaving the areas that SoCal covers. LA Center covers the higher altitudes over SoCal, as well as a larger area beyond. Flying from San Diego to the Bay area I'll usually get handed to a half dozen SoCal controllers, then to LA Center, then Bakersfield Approach, then Oakland Center, then several NorCal handoffs.