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Yeah more and more of some of the duties will become automated like traffic information especially with ADS-B starting. But it will be a Ling time before the judgement and separation duties will be replaced.

The king air was 42 miles south northbound descending for landing. The RJ just departed south southbound to IAH climbing high. The controller started issuing traffic when they were 30 miles apart and closing. Traffic to one. Traffic to the other. Then again. No joy. More traffic. Closer...

Many controllers do 2-1-21 skip 2-1-6 and start vectoring under 2-1-1. Or they wait so long to issue traffic under 2-1-21 that it becomes a safety alert under 2-1-6 and panic vector to stop a collision or loss of separation. As an instructor I would always want to know why a controller sk...

Let’s review.... First 2-1-21 based on “when proximity MAY diminish”. Then 2-1-26 when the two are in “unsafe proximity” Then 2-1-1 requiring ATC to “PREVENT a collision” In that order of escalation. The FAA made it clear that they expect controllers to do everything possible to prevent...

Because the controller damn near ran a RJ and a King Air together and did nothing about it but issue traffic...never escalated it to a Safety alert until it was too late...then argued that under 2-1-6 nothing more than the advisory is required and that the RJ has the responsibility in VFR...

And that is true as stated. I’m refering to having left the Delta with no continuing radar service. There is no requirement to be on frequency......UNLESS.....UNLESS!!!!!!! ....ATC(tower) is still giving you some form of service such as getting you past inbound traffic, or you have been...

About four years ago, after a controller argued with a complaining outbound carrier who did not receive appropriate safety alerts from him and whom the controller almost ran into a descending King Air because the controller took no action to separate the two because of the see and avoid VFR...

I do not care if you change freqs if you are not going to be sent to departure for radar service. Once you have left the class d you no longer have a requirement to talk to ATC if you have no other business with them, that is. I do t care if you change and you don’t need my permission unless...

Only because most pilots don’t have any idea how to do a flight. If you are going to be a flight the stay together throughout the entire flight, including touchdown. A flight will be treated as one unit for separation from other aircraft. The lead should squawk and the wing on standby. The...

You do not have to independently establish communications with the tower. If you are on the approach control freq who has jurisdiction over the airspace where the class C,D, or B is then he IS the ATC in charge. He has to coordinate with the tower to enter the airspace. The exception is...

That is the correct ATC phraseology.

I teach at a college now training pilots and I suggest this for all of my student since it has been effective for me and most IFR students and pilots I know. Before I tell you the secret keep in mind that nothing replaces regular real practice. Here’s the cheap secret. PC flight sim...

That’s how FSDO will handle it. They will ask which rule do you believe he’s violating and how or why. And your ideas of what should be or what ought to be won’t enter into it. Is he high enough to not cause a hazard in the event of a power failure? State your proof or take pictures to make...

First, if the situation is as you say then the ATIS should reglect the correct approach. In this case ILS RY 13 is no the approach in use. The approach in use is ILS RY 13 Circle to Runway 18. On the ATIS this would be stated “ILS RUNWAY 13 Circle to Runway 18 Approach in use”. ( and I...

As a faculty instructor for a major metroplex college professional commercial pilot trading program I think I can sum up my advise fairly succinctly. Most kids these days come from high school with a lazy study ethic. Many enter a college program thinking that it will be just like the fifth...

As a controller I am always, ALWAYS trying to keep everything as close to the same as possible. At any given moment, the same pattern, same flow, same turnouts, etc. this changes from moment to moment but the idea is that it is usually when someone does something different from everybody else...

Bob, They are supposed to teach it correctly and many do. Far too many do not and allow some of the poor phraseology when they fill out the -25 training report. This the poor phraseology is perpetuated from generation to generation because if an instructor has bad habits he will almost...

Your responsibility to to exit where told and clear the runway to a point past the hold line. Then you call ground if told to contact ground. Many times local will keep the exiting aircraft on his freq. the way you can tell this is that he will normally say “turn right at Next intersection...

No. Absolutely not. You fly the assigned heading. ATC will correct for wind if necessary. In fact divergent separation is expressly based on that. tex

The radar facility is departure only when you are switched from tower to “departure”. All other cases it’s “approach” tex