Low fuel emergency in DFW

If those distances are correct, yes ATC did not do what it
should have done. But , do all controllers have hot wives
who screw around?


"Judah" wrote in message
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| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in
| news |
| I don't think you understand the complexity of the
airspace
| around DFW, with arrival gates, departure corridors,
| multiple runways.
|
| It is not a 1 minute or a two minute exercise to "clear
the
| airspace" neither does a 10° heading change create legal
| separation in one minute.
|
| Oh, come on! Didn't you see "Pushing Tin"?
|
|
|
| Seriously, though, based on the "10 miles north of Bonham"
that was described
| in the WFAA report (assuming that was accurate), the
emergency was called
| about 70 NM out.
|
| At 450 Kts, that's about 10 minutes before the plane is
within range. And
| presumably, once they get below 10,000', they'll slow down
to 250 Kts
| allowing even more time.
|
| Plenty of time to vector even dozens of planes out of the
way safely.
|

"Jim Macklin" wrote in
:

If those distances are correct, yes ATC did not do what it
should have done. But , do all controllers have hot wives
who screw around?


Oh boy! Talk about confusing reality with simulation! You've hit it right on
the head!


Manix is indeed none other than John Cusack!

Shortly after Pushing Tin with the Thornton-Jolie couple (whose real life was
nearly perfectly simulated on the big screen years earlier), he effectively
simulated Being John Malkovitch, even from a lounge chair in a living room!