While I wouldn’t call this a political issue, or even an airline-specific issue for that matter, ATC plays these games all the time. ATC knows that certain conditions will completely shut operations down. For example, FZRA, +SN, and PL (just to name a few) do not have holdover times. ATC is aware t...
Jump to postI also forgot to add most, if not all major ATC facilities have in house NWS. They put the current METAR and conditions in and I either press four buttons to send it or record it word by word. I’ve cut 1000’s of ATIS’s in my career and I have never changed an official weather report.
Jump to postWhile I wouldn’t call this a political issue, or even an airline-specific issue for that matter, ATC plays these games all the time. ATC knows that certain conditions will completely shut operations down. For example, FZRA, +SN, and PL (just to name a few) do not have holdover times. ATC is aware t...
Jump to postOk, so a really dumb follow up question: Is a visual approach truly 'visual' in the sense the pilot sees the airport and runway and simply flies there, or is there a system of electronic navigation 'landmarks' (for lack of a better term) that are used to navigate to the runway? Thanks in advance. T...
Jump to postTo add a few tidbits... Although a visual approach, it is still a IFR procedure. And the aircraft doesn’t necessarily have to actually have the field in sight. If the aircraft has the preceding aircraft in sight, he can be instructed to follow the traffic and cleared a visual approach. And there are...
Jump to postHonestly I don’t even know why they bother the cleaning. Watching first hand at my facility, it’s a joke and like you said expensive. It’s gone from “being safe” to doing as little as possible as to not disrupt the system. We’ve had 3 confirmed from 3 different crews. Yeah that’s what I was afraid ...
Jump to postJust curious from anyone that’s been at a facility that has a positive test; are they making that entire team/crew quarantine for 14 days or just the individual?
Jump to postRight, ever hear of Captain Happy’s outburst at ATL? It’s was all over APC. The controller was at complete fault with The captain Happy incident. It was one of 14 Similar exchanges that year. They all led to one controller. He was given leave and came back... his behavior did not change much so he ...
Jump to postI don’t believe these stats are correct. I believe these are only departures. Usually, when the “World’s Busiest Airport” title was going between ATL and ORD, the number of total operations was used, not just departures. While I would assume it would be doubled, the stats the newspaper used aren’t t...
Jump to postWhile I’ll admit watching it depart into the sunset each early evening was a beautiful sight which I will miss, I will not miss working it from an air traffic point of view. Slow and a pain in the ass to work around.
Jump to postNot much of an accomplishment? Consider this. 1). DL has to deal with split hubs which creates less than optimal international~domestic connections. This is probably why Delta international numbers are much lower than UA because they cannot flow as many international connections through. 2). DL has...
Jump to postI work in a tower. We normally run 8-9 positions during a normal day. We are doing three now. Clearance and flight data are combined with ground. We have a local (tower) controller for each side of the airport and that’s it. And to clarify, when you here a “ground” controller, he is still in the tow...
Jump to postThe Fort Myers area, as I would assume much of southern Florida, is a extremely seasonal rental car market. The company’s move thousand’s of cars down in preparation for “the season”; snowbirds coming south for the winter. Normally, those cars are in use as March and April are the busiest times for ...
Jump to postI wonder, how is it possible that ATCO's in the U.S. are testing positive one after the other? It's not like they are all working in tight quarters and coming in contact with a lot of people? Has there been an ATC convention that all these Atco's went to? Is it transmitted through radio? The virus ...
Jump to postI saw on this board that ATL was closing a runway for the sake of DL storage. I'd love to see a photo! I read one report that Delta was going to park 600 of their 900 aircraft on that one runway in ATL. I have to question the wisdom of that plan heading into peak tornado season [1]. Dispersing to 2...
Jump to postSo who was clearing the traffic at LAS for take-off? I was hearing the tower freq via Liveatc.net but didn't hear anything other than hearing from LAS NW departure freq clearing the flights "cleared as released." Then I heard ATC telling an AA flight to monitor ctaf on 119.9 (basically tw...
Jump to postI have to wonder why ATL doesn't have a crosswind arrival runway. It may not help with the departures, but arrivals could still happen. A crosswind runway would have no effect. The winds were right down the final most of the morning. We had numerous wind shear alerts as well as numerous pilot repor...
Jump to postFrom a ATC point of you, if a correct read back isn’t received, it’s like nothing was issued. She made a mistake not solitciting a read back of hold short instructions. I also fault the technique of issuing an important clearance like a hold short and in the same transmission adding another question...
Jump to postNot sure if you mis-typed but there is no 9C. It’s going to between 10/28 and 9R/27L
Jump to postThe reason I can call it the “Papa Loop” is we have a coded taxi route signed by certain operators that pilots are supposed to be aware of. For an aircraft that lands 9R, they can be issued a ATC clearance that says “taxi via the Papa Loop”. The aircraft will follow the prescribed routing. He still...
Jump to postThe reason I can call it the “Papa Loop” is we have a coded taxi route signed by certain operators that pilots are supposed to be aware of. For an aircraft that lands 9R, they can be issued a ATC clearance that says “taxi via the Papa Loop”. The aircraft will follow the prescribed routing. He still ...
Jump to postYes, both the Raiders and the Seahawks fly HA. -DBC False. The Seahawks Charter with Delta and have for several years. FALSE. HA has been the charter for the last 2 years for Seahawks. Only during the playoffs is when DL takes over flying the Seahawks. HA had to drop the Seahawks a few years becaus...
Jump to postPapa loop on the south side allows for faster departures Eastbound and not having arriving traffic on 9R and 10 not cross in front of 9L departures. The same process works very well for ORD. I do understand that is alot of aircraft poured onto ground ops on the south side though. When in eastbound ...
Jump to postThere’s some good in depth information in this study. https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/profiles/media/ATL-Airport-Capacity-Profile-2018.pdf If you read the “current capacity chart” on the third page, which incorporates arrivals as well as departures, you’ll notice that all flows are h...
Jump to posthttp://www.airportviewer.com Select ATL and spend time observing traffic patterns. And, yes, peak efficiency is a west operation. Most 27R departures use the LC intersection. Heavies our aircraft with flow times mostly use full length. ILL Wrong. Peak efficiency is eastbound. The arrival rate peaks...
Jump to postThere’s some good in depth information in this study. https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/profiles/media/ATL-Airport-Capacity-Profile-2018.pdf If you read the “current capacity chart” on the third page, which incorporates arrivals as well as departures, you’ll notice that all flows are hi...
Jump to postThose are arrival rates only. Last time I checked, airplanes have to depart as well. But don’t let my 10 years of experience in the FAA, including multiple years working ATL tower, mean anything.
Jump to posthttp://www.airportviewer.com Select ATL and spend time observing traffic patterns. And, yes, peak efficiency is a west operation. Most 27R departures use the LC intersection. Heavies our aircraft with flow times mostly use full length. ILL Wrong. Peak efficiency is eastbound. The arrival rate peaks...
Jump to postFor someone who seems to have a good knowledge of the Milwaukee market; I’m curious what your thoughts are on ATL. Southwest does two flights a day and each time I’m onboard they aren’t close to full. Of course with DAL flying the route as well, I wonder if SWA is considering dropping ATL-MKE. I loo...
Jump to postA few weeks ago DAL coordinated a two minute freeze on all ground movement at Atlanta to honor the ramper that was killed at JFK. I think it would be a nice gesture for them to do the same now.
Jump to postGet it built before the Ryder Cup September 2020?
Jump to postThe a380 is approved on 9R/27L. That is the usual arrival runway. He can depart as well on that runway.
Jump to postThey arrived and parked at a gate on the E and F terminals. They were then towed to north cargo where they stayed overnight. They then departed without going back to the terminals.
Jump to postThree different Virgin 747’s on the ground. One for the normal flight and two repos from Orlando. Two just took off heading back south.
Jump to postAt my airport, the ARFF crew is positioned at the entrance to the ramp, well in advance, of the arrival. So absolutely zero delay and zero extra taxi.
Jump to postThe wall of weather is mostly just rain. Big gaps between the yellow. The WSR88 system was the worst thing that ever happened to aviation. Another hysterical overreaction by ATC. If it’s a GS for a specific airline, as in AA and Subs only, I can pretty much guarantee it was not an ATC issue, it was...
Jump to postNo, the pilot is wrong. ATC isn’t there to serve him; we are there to serve everyone equally. I am sworn to provide safe and efficient service to everyone, whether you are in an A380 or a C182. I understand you have been flying long enough that you feel entitled cause you are flying a heavy, but don...
Jump to postAs accurately noted above, if a pilot does not understand a clearance, he requests it restated until he does. I think the funniest thing I heard was at YYZ last year. As it was the late evening Ground and Clearance Delivery were the same controlller. As we were taxiing in, Emirates received the cle...
Jump to postHere is a link from the public FAA website that has some pics. Although it’s not up to date; in fact it’s from the old O’Hare layout, I would guess the diagrams that show the airspace are still relatively accurate. https://www.faa.gov/airports/airport_development/omp/planning/mp/oamp/media/Section_I...
Jump to postIf you look on the public FAA website they have a not great picture of C90’s airspace in an article about STARS. I tried to post the pic but I can’t. Chicago Tracon is bordered by Milwaukee Tracon on the north, almost on the Wisconsin/Illinois border. Rockford is to the west. I don’t know for sure b...
Jump to postIn every air traffic facility, there are standard operating procedures that cover departure and arrival procedures at every airport within their airspace. I’m not from the area but I’m assuming Paine Field is underneath Seattle approach control. There is a letter of agreement, or LOA, that spells ou...
Jump to postInbounds landing Miami and Jacksonville Centers were ground stopped for hours today. Obviously, anything departing ATL towards the south hits these centers. So, although ATL may have been reporting delays, it wasn’t all charged to them.
Jump to postAs far as the ground stops and delay programs, this is unfortunately a necessary evil when so much traffic wants to land at approximately the same window. Other airports near Augusta, including Aiken (AIK), SC, DNL Field and Thomson, GA (HVQ?) also get delayed as well.
Jump to postTo answer the question, Augusta is an approach control with tower. Each year, the FAA does a special bid and brings in controllers from other facilities to work the tower. Since tower functions are relatively simple, a temp controller and figure it out pretty quick. The regular AGS controllers that ...
Jump to postAtlanta does it all the time. If the weather is garbage they will land triple arrivals from about 730am to 9pm almost nonstop.
Jump to postThe FAF for RSW is 1500, so 800 isn’t as low as you would think. However, this looks close. This happens often enough at Fort Myers where this isn’t all that shocking. There are procedures to try and prevent this from a controller point of view, but speaking from my own experience as an approach con...
Jump to postThe T expansion is a novel idea and I like it. The main problem is, this does absolutely nothing to solve the problem of a shortage of gates for widebody aircraft. This is a good stopgap solution for the interim but how long can they actually go in the long term without adding G? Also, I wonder wha...
Jump to postAt the airport I work at, a pretty busy one at that, we, in coordination with the major airline operators here, started our construction last Monday, also an indicator that the summer schedules are starting to slow down.
Jump to postWe haven't hit Labor Day yet. Summer is still peaking. I don't think so. When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's, I never was in public school before mid Sept. Somehow since then, although summer doesn't end until 9/21, the start date of schools in the US has crept earlier, now to mid-late August. So...
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