OB384: Mommy, Where Do LOAs Come From?

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4.8 • 811 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Episode 384 Show Notes

Topic of the show: Mommy, Where do LOA’s Come From? RH and AG discuss Letters of Agreement between facilities. What are they, how do they work, why are they necessary? We also discuss some more career feedback for aspiring professional pilots and air traffic controllers, losing radios and using a satellite phone, and more of your awesome aviation questions and feedback.

Timely Feedback:

1. Patron SA offers wise advice to those early in their career search

2. Patron CSL responds to career day and gives advice for rotor heads

3. Patron AS has great info for would be CFI’s

Feedback

1. Paypaller and controller PL says hello and gives advice to trainees

2. Patron RK sends questions about pilot’s discretion and opening and closing towers

3. Patron JD has a story about being NORDO in a helo.

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0:00.0	I'm not saying don't ask for things that you need.
0:02.3	I'm just asking you to understand that when you want something like that, that is non-standard,
0:08.2	that is requiring coordination, that it isn't just a simple thing that should be taken for granted.
0:14.3	It's something that we try to do as little as possible because that could be the distraction that causes an accident.
0:21.6	Ready.
0:30.2	This is opposing bases air traffic talk.
0:33.7	Your host, Alpha Golf and Romeo Hotel, have a half century of aviation experience in combat helicopters, airliners, and air traffic control.
0:43.6	They answer your questions about flying, aviation, and ATC.
0:47.8	This weekly podcast is for entertainment and education and does not serve as a replacement for a qualified flight instructor,
0:55.6	an examiner, the FARs, the 7110, your best friend, your next pilot, or your cat.
1:02.6	November 628, Charlie Delft, the Squawk 1-200, frequency change approved.
1:06.8	The audio will be available on live ATC.
1:09.2	Good day.
1:10.0	November 643, July, Mike, cleared visual approach.
1:12.4	One way 2.3 left.
1:13.5	Conak Tower.
1:14.4	November 3-222 Yankee, area of heavy to extreme precipitation.
1:19.3	2 o'clock, 15 miles, 7 miles.
1:22.9	3047 Charlie, try a departure, radar contact, climb and maintain 8,000.
1:26.9	November 747 Sierra Lima, reduce speed 1-80, your overtaking traffic ahead on file.
1:33.0	Skyhawk 7-7-Tango, IFR can't place and received, squawked the FAR, friction to change, approved.
1:37.6	Sierra 720 Fox, try now for flattening 190 vectors for the visual approach. Sky Hawk, Niners Sierra Popper, to enter Triad-Class-Chalilis surface area from the east,
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