Air Traffic/Pilot Terminology

Tom,

Both FAA links below are obsolete.


Hmm. They work just fine.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:24:54 +0200, Thomas Borchert
wrote:

Tom,

Both FAA links below are obsolete.


Hmm. They work just fine.

Interestingly, I get this for both links:

=====
Page Not Found

Sorry, but the page you have requested has moved or no longer exists.
Please use the links provided below to find the resource you were
looking for:
Home

* FAA Home
=====

and if I enter only the first part of the links
(http://www.faa.gov/atpubs) I get forwarded to
http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraff.../publications/

Mysterious....

Tom,

Both FAA links below are obsolete.


Hmm. They work just fine.

Interestingly, I get this for both links:


Hmm. Weird! I copied them from the displayed publication right before I
posted. They don't work now. So thanks for correcting.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:19:05 -0700, wrote:

It said there were over a 150 options. I was
wondering if you could recommend a few.

To what type of traffic do you want to listen? A busy commercial airport?
A busy general aviation airport? A sector of airspace (perhaps near some
airport)? Something else?

- Andrew

On Jul 23, 11:34 am, Andrew Gideon wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:19:05 -0700, wrote:
It said there were over a 150 options. I was
wondering if you could recommend a few.

To what type of traffic do you want to listen? A busy commercial airport?
A busy general aviation airport? A sector of airspace (perhaps near some
airport)? Something else?

- Andrew

I'm not sure. I'm new to this. I guess a commercial airport? i'm
looking for something that has a lot of tranmissions and activity and
possibly something interesting going on.

On 7/22/2007 10:19:03 PM, " wrote:

I didn't miss your post. It said there were over a 150 options. I was
wondering if you could recommend a few. Or are they all the same.

Ah, sorry for the misinterpretation. I thought my link didn't make it
through.

The feeds on LiveATC.net are a total blend of activity, from the busiest
class B airport (JFK, Boston Logan, BWI, etc) to the smaller, slower class D
airport (very small towered airports), and from center feeds (typically
higher altitude, en-route portions) to HF (Atlantic ocean crossing routes).

Perhaps the most entertaining ATC feed on LiveATC.net that draws the most
listeners every day is the JFK (John F Kennedy airport, New York City) ground
feed, whereby you can listen to the organized chaos of controllers directing
lots of aircraft from the gates to the runways and visa versa. With a
combination of NYC controller attitude to pilots who cannot understand the
complex taxi instructions, there are always tense or humorous moments.

http://audio.liveatc.net:8012/kjfk_del_gnd.m3u

However, if you desire the complex air coordination, Boston Approach or any
of the New York approaches, at:

http://audio.liveatc.net:8012/kbos_final.m3u
or
http://audio.liveatc.net:8012/kjfk_app_final.m3u

These are especially interesting when a strong line of thunderstorms is about
to move into the area. Check your favorite weather radar site, then hop over
to LiveATC.net and pick a feed for an airport about to be overrun by
thunderstorms.

I volunteer the Syracuse, NY, feed. Syracuse is a class C (moderately busy
mid-sized airport) in upstate NY. This feed blends approach with tower to
provide a more complete picture of the first or last 15 minutes of a flight.
This feed is he

http://audio.liveatc.net:8012/ksyr.m3u

--
Peter

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:28:17 -0700, wrote:



I'm not sure. I'm new to this.

Then just listen to a few of different types, and see what attracts/holds
your interest.

I
guess a commercial airport? i'm looking
for something that has a lot of tranmissions and activity and possibly
something interesting going on.

Even that doesn't help; what is "interesting" to you may be dull to
others. I've little interest, for example, in listening to a commercial
airport. Listening to busy GA airports, to me, is more fun.

Listening to a busy GA airport while trying to work, though, would be a
Bad Idea. In that case, I'll listen to a place a little more "sleepy".

Then there's the idea of listening to traffic in a chunk of airspace. I
find en route dull; I'd rather listen to airspace with a lot of arrivals
or departures. But just listening to the cattle cars lining up for a JFK,
though, isn't too exciting. For me. Others may have very different
opinions.

So try a bunch, and see what you like.

- Andrew

In his first post he ask what BUGSY. BUGSY is Malone-Dufort Airport at Malone,
NY and later he ask what heavy was. My guess is he's near Montreal.

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:34:08 -0400, Andrew Gideon wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:19:05 -0700, wrote:

It said there were over a 150 options. I was
wondering if you could recommend a few.

To what type of traffic do you want to listen? A busy commercial airport?
A busy general aviation airport? A sector of airspace (perhaps near some
airport)? Something else?

- Andrew


GeorgeC

GeorgeC wrote in
:

In his first post he ask what BUGSY. BUGSY is Malone-Dufort Airport at
Malone, NY and later he ask what heavy was. My guess is he's near
Montreal.

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:34:08 -0400, Andrew Gideon
wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:19:05 -0700, wrote:

It said there were over a 150 options. I was
wondering if you could recommend a few.

To what type of traffic do you want to listen? A busy commercial
airport? A busy general aviation airport? A sector of airspace
(perhaps near some airport)? Something else?

- Andrew


GeorgeC

BUGSY is NOT Malone-Dufort Airport, nor is at Malone, NY. It is the
missed approach fix on both GPS approach plates to KMAL (Malone-Dufort
Airport) and is about 11.2 nm from KMAL. The closest town to BUGSY is
Mountain Veiw, NY, not Malone, NY. BUGSY is also a fix on the enroute LO
and HI charts.

--
Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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On Jul 23, 1:57 pm, " wrote:
What exactly is
a squawk and what is it's function?

Aircraft (in general) have a device called a "transponder" which is a
little device that basically tells the air traffic controllers who the
aircraft is (and typically these days, how high it is).

To cut a long story (which you can find on Wikipedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder_(aviation) ) short, each
aircraft is assigned a code which the pilot enters into the
transponder, and this code is broadcast to air traffic control to
identify the aircraft. This code is called the "squawk" code.

There are also some standard squawk codes, one used "by default" for
VFR flight, one for if the aircraft gets hijacked (if the pilot can
enter the code without the hijackers noticing), another for general
emergencies etc...