OB033: The Great East West ATC Throwdown
Opposing Bases: Air Traffic Talk
Air Traffic Talk
4.9 • 966 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
We follow up on some questions regarding ODPs from last week and briefly discuss the recent accident near Seattle. RH interviews "Bravo Golf", host of Podcasting On a Plane (podcastingonaplane.com). RH and AG will play the first half of the interview on this episode. BG will play the second half on his show. Check out BG's Vlog. We discuss how our operations are vastly different, our backgrounds, and answer some listener feedback. Thank you, Joe the Airbus Guy for sending this article about the safety measures and changes resulting from the Havoc 58 crash in 1996.
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| 0:00.0 | Ready. |
| 0:09.4 | American 745 Triad Tower Runway, 2.3 left, cleared away. |
| 0:13.5 | Delta 1549, triad departure, radar contact, climb and maintain 1,000. |
| 0:18.0 | Bairant 6458, Charlie, traffic 1 o'clock, 4 miles southwestbound Bonanza, 6,000. |
| 0:23.7 | Virgin 11 heavy, go-around. |
| 0:25.9 | Fly-heading 230, maintain 3,000. |
| 0:28.3 | Delta 1275 try-out approach. |
| 0:30.5 | It sounded like you checked in with Bravo. |
| 0:32.6 | 8 is Charlie's current triad advise when you have Charlie. |
| 0:36.4 | FedEx 1580 heavy, seven miles from pagan. |
| 0:39.0 | Fly heading 080, maintain 3,000 until established on a localizer, cleared ILS, 5-right approach. |
| 1:01.4 | Welcome to episode 33 of opposing bases air traffic talk. |
| 1:04.4 | We are Romeo Hotel and Alpha Golf. |
| 1:07.4 | Two air traffic controllers and rated pilots. |
| 1:09.0 | This is an aviation podcast. |
| 1:11.3 | We express our views and opinions about aviation flying and air traffic control. We do not represent our employer and our shows for |
| 1:16.7 | entertainment purposes only. We should not be used as a replacement for your CFI, your |
| 1:21.5 | OJTI, the 7110.65, the FARs, your attorney, your doctor, your best friend, or your cat. |
| 1:30.9 | Thank you for joining us on another episode. |
| 1:33.0 | On today's show, we are going to talk about the recent tragedy in Seattle, |
| 1:37.1 | some follow-up to last week's episode on obstacle departure procedures |
| 1:41.3 | and an interview with a fellow controller pilot podcaster Bravo Golf from podcasting on a plane. |
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