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There are little dramas on ATC frequencies every day. Sometimes we get to hear a chapter or two of a story, but then get handed off to another sector and miss the denouement. Such was the case this morning.
I was returning to Goodyear from a $100 pancake mission to Payson AZ, in perfect VFR weather. I was on flight following with PHX APC when I heard a Bombardier CL600 check in after takeoff from Scottsdale. Seconds later the voice from the jet told PHX, "We have to return to Scottsdale." PHX asked if he needed assistance; he said, "Not at the moment. We're running some checklists but we'd like to climb to 10,000 so we can get wi-fi and communicate with the company and figure out what to do."
The controller said he'd give him north-south legs to fly, north of the PHX Class B, at whatever altitude he needed. He asked the crew to let him know their status as soon as possible so he could get them sequenced back in to SDL.
It was about then that I was handed off to Luke Approach, and I didn't get to hear the rest of the story. It was kinda like leaving the ballgame in the second inning.
Curious, I checked Flightaware after I got home. Turns out the game had gone extra innings.
Flightaware showed that the CL600 was filed to Kona, Hawaii. Instead, it flew round and round in holding patterns north of Phoenix for three hours before it finally returned to SDL.
There's nothing in the news about it, so the return must have been uneventful.
I'm guessing they had to burn off their trans-Pacific-sized load of fuel before they could land.
Glad it was a non-event.
The saw-tooth pattern of the groundspeed readout is probably the result of the wind aloft, and flying upwind, then downwind, then upwind, then downwind, etc.
I was returning to Goodyear from a $100 pancake mission to Payson AZ, in perfect VFR weather. I was on flight following with PHX APC when I heard a Bombardier CL600 check in after takeoff from Scottsdale. Seconds later the voice from the jet told PHX, "We have to return to Scottsdale." PHX asked if he needed assistance; he said, "Not at the moment. We're running some checklists but we'd like to climb to 10,000 so we can get wi-fi and communicate with the company and figure out what to do."
The controller said he'd give him north-south legs to fly, north of the PHX Class B, at whatever altitude he needed. He asked the crew to let him know their status as soon as possible so he could get them sequenced back in to SDL.
It was about then that I was handed off to Luke Approach, and I didn't get to hear the rest of the story. It was kinda like leaving the ballgame in the second inning.
Curious, I checked Flightaware after I got home. Turns out the game had gone extra innings.
Flightaware showed that the CL600 was filed to Kona, Hawaii. Instead, it flew round and round in holding patterns north of Phoenix for three hours before it finally returned to SDL.
There's nothing in the news about it, so the return must have been uneventful.
I'm guessing they had to burn off their trans-Pacific-sized load of fuel before they could land.
Glad it was a non-event.
The saw-tooth pattern of the groundspeed readout is probably the result of the wind aloft, and flying upwind, then downwind, then upwind, then downwind, etc.
