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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message nk.net... "John Clonts" wrote in message ... Indeed. To Andrew it was interesting enough to prompt him to post a usenet question about it! I think most of you folks are thinking of this clearance delivery frequency as being a separate position in the TRACON. That's extremely unlikely. Any airport with enough traffic to justify such a position is an airport needing a control tower. This frequency is almost certainly just an RTR located at the field because the normal approach control frequency for that area does not reach aircraft on the ground. It's probably labeled as a clearance delivery frequency instead of an approach frequency because some other facility not so far away also uses that frequency and airborne use of it would interfere. At my airport it's definitely this way. The guy I talk to at Gray CD is the same guy I talk to once airborne. That's why I would expect that CD could give me a clearance just as readily as approach could. And if they told me "contact FSS or contact approach once airborne", I would wonder about it, just like Andrew did. Seems like Roy Smith had a pretty good answer for it, though... Cheers, John Clonts Temple, Texas N7NZ |
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