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Hash: SHA1 Steven P. McNicoll wrote: "Alan Gerber" wrote in message ... I mean tell the tower I'm coming and have me keep my squawk code when I contact the tower. Does this have another name? Is this not normally done at class D airports? What's the advantage in having the radar controller call the tower with that information? Perhaps you should use your connections and ask that very same question to San Carlos Tower (KSQL), as they have pilots coming in exactly like this, and they *ARE* a Class D airport. In fact, it isn't only the TRACON that is doing this, KSFO Tower does this as well. Constantly and Consistently, the following is given to pilots: "N123CM, leaving Class Bravo airspace to the south, radar services terminated, maintain your present beacon code, contact San Carlos Tower, 119.0." Want proof of it, hit up the KSFO Tower feed at LiveATC. Now, I haven't visited KSQL so I don't know if they have BRITE, but from my tour of NCT, controllers there told us that it is done so the tower knows who is who as they drop below the Class B floor. For some they do call the tower to let them know who is coming in (pending how the traffic load is), some they don't. But it is a standard practice happening at one of the busiest centralized TRACONs in the airspace. BL. - -- Brad Littlejohn | Email: Unix Systems Administrator, | Web + NewsMaster, BOFH.. Smeghead! ![]() PGP: 1024D/E319F0BF 6980 AAD6 7329 E9E6 D569 F620 C819 199A E319 F0BF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFkez3yBkZmuMZ8L8RAuDmAJ4z+npZ1p6FNHg06hAJsN PRrmNdUACfTG8s k8TH1tQ/czgmiL9P0xrOSC0= =PjrQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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