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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote: "Bill Denton" wrote in message ... But approach is not associated with any particular airport. Even though a given approach may serve only one airport, it's not associated with that airport, it's associated with a center. How so? Approach tends to be located at the airport it was established to serve, not at a center. True enough in general, but 'round here most approaches have been borged into either NorCal (nee Sierra, nee Bay / Sacto / Monterey / Travis / Stockton / etc.) or SoCal Approaches. Same service, but served out of anonymous barns somewhere in lovely Suburban Sacramento and the even lovelier Southlands, well away from most of the airports they serve. Not that that's terribly relevant to the original point, but never mind. It's just that the mental image changed almost overnight from a bunch of people (some of whom you'd actually see occasionally getting lunch from the local roach coach or talking at local meetings) sitting around at Oakland or Sacto or Travis in buildings you could see every time you flew, to a much larger bunch of people you never ever see, a long way from most airports. Almost like a Center, in fact (but at least I've *seen* Oakland Center and met some of the people there...). This is why you may see approach and departure on the same frequency. I don't see the connection. Me neither. Hamish |
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