OB343: Flight Following Lite
Opposing Bases: Air Traffic Talk
Air Traffic Talk
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Episode 343 Show Notes
Topic of the show: Lessons from Flight Following “Light” On this week’s show, RH and AG discuss what can be learned from dissecting the procedures used in flight following light operations. Could this procedure be used across the NAS to improve safety? What can be done while we wait? We also discuss special ops helicopters, our experience at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, and more aviation questions. This was a really fun episode and you don’t want to miss it!
Timely Feedback:
1. Patron AL sent audio feedback about OSH
2. Patron and Controller MK sent OSH feedback
3. Patron DS sent a question about airshows
4. Patron HTB sent a quick OSH feedback
5. Patron BB tells us what they wanted to say at the OSH meet and greet.
Feedback
1. Patron JC seconds the low altitude sentiment for the Hudson corridor.
2. G Model Driver JL takes on the Old Guard
3. Patron SA collaborates with Windy City controllers to achieve the unlikely.
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| 0:00.0 | Not every approach control or Charlie is going to have a thing like this, a letter that just sort of spells out the operation. |
| 0:08.9 | You got to call them. |
| 0:09.9 | You got to go in and get a tour. |
| 0:11.4 | You got to ask them these kind of questions. |
| 0:13.9 | Where should I be? |
| 0:14.5 | Where should I not be? |
| 0:15.3 | How does going from fives to two threes change the operation? |
| 0:19.0 | What about this crossing runway? |
| 0:20.7 | You know. |
| 0:21.0 | Ready. |
| 0:29.8 | This is opposing bases air traffic talk. Your host, Alpha Golf and Romeo Hotel, have a half century of aviation experience in combat helicopters, |
| 0:40.1 | airliners, and air traffic control. They answer your questions about flying aviation and ATC. |
| 0:47.1 | This weekly podcast is for entertainment and education and does not serve as a replacement for a qualified |
| 0:53.5 | flight instructor, an examiner, the FARs, the 7110, your best friend, your next pilot, or your cat. |
| 1:01.9 | November 628, Charlie Delft, the squawk 1-200, frequency change approved. The audio will be available on live ATC. Good day. |
| 1:09.3 | November 643, Julie, light, Clear, Visual Approx, runway, 2.3 left, |
| 1:12.8 | Connick Tower. November 3-222, Yankee, area of heavy to extreme precipitation, 2 o'clock, to 1 o'clock, 15 miles, 7 miles. |
| 1:22.0 | 3.47 Charlie, try a departure, radar contact, climbing, maintain. November 77 CIR Lima, reduce speed to 180, your overtaking traffic ahead on file. |
| 1:32.3 | Skyhawk 777 angle, IFR can't place and received, squawk VFR, frequency change, approved. |
| 1:36.3 | Sierra 720 Fox, try now for flatting 190 vectors for the visual approach. |
| 1:41.3 | Skyhawk, Niner, Sierra Poplar, clear to intertritrag class Charlie's surface area from the east, maintain special via far conditions. |
| 1:47.2 | Please welcome retired Army pilot Alpha Golf and the rookie first officer at Penguin Airlines |
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