OB391: Lost Radar Procedures, Revisited
Opposing Bases: Air Traffic Talk
Air Traffic Talk
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Episode 391 Show Notes
Topic of the show: In this episode, RH and AG revisit a recent ATC radar and radio outage to explore why some facilities/pilots can’t simply "call Center" when everything fails. They break down the structural differences between co-located and remote sectors and why redundancy didn’t work as expected. We also discussed a listener’s question about what happens when multiple aircraft are on conflicting courses: who has to move out of the way.
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1. SGAC Patron AD asks how controllers decide who to move out of the way when a conflict requires the controller to make a move.
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| 0:00.0 | The review. |
| 0:01.0 | I like the title, A Hilariously brilliant avalanche of aviation wisdom. |
| 0:06.0 | Avalanche, sort of the snow and ice theme that we promote here. |
| 0:10.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:11.0 | Five stars. |
| 0:12.0 | Listening to opposing bases is like watching a penguin-themed TED Talk, hosted on a rapidly melting iceberg of mental capacity. |
| 0:19.0 | Ready. |
| 0:30.8 | This is a posing basis air traffic talk. |
| 0:37.0 | Your host, Alpha Golf and Romeo Hotel, have a half century of aviation experience in combat helicopters, airliners, and air traffic |
| 0:40.0 | control. They answer your questions about flying aviation and ATC. This weekly podcast is for |
| 0:47.2 | entertainment and education and does not serve as a replacement for a qualified flight instructor, |
| 0:53.2 | an examiner, the FARs, the 7110, your best friend, |
| 0:57.9 | your next pilot, or your cat. November 628, Charlie Delft, the Squawk 1-200, frequency change |
| 1:03.9 | approved. The audio will be available on live ATC. Good day. November 643, Julie at my, clear, |
| 1:09.6 | visual prox, runway, 23 left, Conach Tower. November 3-, Julie McClure, Visual Approx, runway, 2.3 left, Connick Tower. |
| 1:12.0 | November 3-222, Yankee, area of heavy to extreme precipitation, 2 o'clock, 1 o'clock, 15 miles, 7 miles. |
| 1:20.0 | 3.47 Charlie, try a departure, radar contact, climbing, maintain 8,000. |
| 1:24.5 | November 747 Sierra Lima, reduce speed to 1- 180 your overtaking traffic ahead on file |
| 1:30.2 | Skyhawk 7 7 7 tango IFR case received walk VFR fix which a change approved |
| 1:35.1 | Sierra 720 Fox try now for flatting 190 vectors for the visual approach |
| 1:39.3 | Skyhawk 9 Sierra Popper to intertrag class Charlie's surface area from the east maintain |
| 1:43.7 | special VFR conditions please welcome retired Army pilot Alpha Sierra Papa, clear to intertrag class Charlie's surface area from the east, maintain special via far conditions. |
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