OB249: TRACON Dessert

Published: Oct. 10, 2022, 4 a.m.

Episode 249 Show Notes

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Topic of the show: On this week\u2019s show, RH and AG discuss ways flight schools can organize and plan their flights to help ATC and reduce unnecessary flying miles and extra back and forth exchanges of information.\xa0 What techniques did our flight schools employ to keep everyone safely separated during practice missions and what did ATC do to help us reduce communications?\xa0 This is a packed episode with tons of aviation gold.\xa0 Enjoy!

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Timely Feedback:

  1. 1. SGAC Patron CM sent audio about a drone at his home airport!
  2. 2. Patron MK breaks down the rule on aircraft speed. Thank you!
  3. 3. Patron JH shared a way to leave a PIREP: https://www.aviationweather.gov/pirep/submit
  4. 4. Patron TV shared metric and imperial dimensions of the Sectional chart.

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Feedback

  1. SGAC Patron MB shares a story of poor phraseology and we explain the confusion.
  2. Patron GR doesn\u2019t want to clog the frequency with too much information, what do they say?
  3. Patron DW asks about \u201cpilot discretion\u201d descents.
  4. Patron EM asked about VFR MSAW processing.

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