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Nobody at ZDC uses strips. Not for departures, approaches, or emergencies. We still run the printers, wasting thousands of dollars a day printing gi messages and tmu advisories. Here's some more info for people wondering what we look at \ this is an airplane. Specifically it's a paired beacon. You can click it and a data block will appear. I this is a mode C intruder. It will have a beacon code and an altitude. You MAY be able to find a flight plan using the code. If there is no code, it is a VFR above 5000 / this is an unpaired beacon. You cannot click it or get a flight plan from it. It will have a code and a mode C. X this is a paired primary target. This is a plane with no transponder that someone has tagged up. Obviously no mode C. + and . are primaries.
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xaarman posted:So if someone reports an ELT, what is the process that happens? Today, ATC asked several planes if they could pick it up, how strong it was and if it was getting stronger/weaker, but then what? Tell the sup, sup passes it on to whoever who investigates. They may come back and ask you to solicit more reports
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Feb 14, 2014 15:39
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JohnClark posted:We get those ever now and then through our airspace at Potomac, I think they're usually just a one way trip so they can get the repairs done. It's very strange though, the routes are that altitude are typically occupied by cessnas and cherokees, and then a CRJ or an E145 comes bombing down at 10,000. We get that a lot at ZDC especially during summer months. The high sectors will get swamped so tmu puts out a cap of something like fl200. Your options are fly dca to fll at 20k or delay until the cap is lifted. Of course the pilots always check in requesting higher.
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Feb 23, 2014 02:06
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Speaking of entitled motherfuckers on stuckmic, has anyone heard anything about the cti class action? "I paid for this meaningless piece of paper so no one else should get this job before me" was the sentiment back when I was  ing that site all day waiting for my FOL.
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Mar 1, 2014 02:40
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N124 5 miles south of FARTO cross FARTO at or above 2,100.......
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Apr 23, 2014 00:00
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Interesting new arrival to iah popped up in the uret today....
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Jun 3, 2014 20:14
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The Ferret King posted:Dot Dot Dot. Nope. DOOBI1 Although the WHACK1 was good too
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Jun 4, 2014 02:58
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Pilot people. What burns more fuel? Doing 220kts on a 40 minute flight and holding for 30 minutes while I fit you into the flow for ONE OF THE BUSIEST AIRPORTS ON THE EAST COAST, or just loving doing 300 like I asked you to?
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Feb 25, 2015 15:47
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The Ferret King posted:Were they gear-down or something? No. It's a scam by a certain regional to save gas. They were underfuelling planes so they declared min fuel ad soon as we assigned a speed. That lasted 3 days until we got approval to clear them back to their departure airport if they pulled that. It stopped almost immediately. Now their scam is to say they are MEL limited to 220. We are countering this with lengthy holding and brasher warnings. We have requested inspectors at the gates to ground the planes also.
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Feb 25, 2015 19:35
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hjp766 posted:Words The cap for this particular route is fl210 so indicated. We assign speeds 100% of the time for this airport and we hold so often that our sectors are literally just a line of holding patterns. Now that departing min fuel is a guaranteed clearance back to your departure airport for more fuel, they are claiming their airplanes and broken and they can't fly the speeds we need to sequence them. I'm not going to try and sell a stack to the tracon because I know you're full of poo poo and after about the 5th time, they aren't going to buy it. So fly fast or fly slow in a circle for an hour and burn more fuel and deal with the customer service issues when people miss connections.
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Feb 25, 2015 22:46
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KodiakRS posted:I want to know why there are pilots letting themselves be dispatched at min fuel. Even at my cost obsessed airline no one will fight a pilot for a request for more fuel. If they ever did they would probably end up doing a carpet dance once the union, or the FAA, found out about it. With min fuel you can complain about a speed assignment but you can't refuse it. With a broken plane you can claim you are unable the speed.
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Feb 26, 2015 04:08
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"Butt Reactor" posted:Also, kmcormick9, is that regional pulling that nonsense Waterski? No comment. I heard a new one today- "Center we have a little girl with cancer who will be late to her 1 o'clock doctors appointment if we hold"
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Mar 3, 2015 02:38
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Spookydonut posted:Wouldn't you just ask them to confirm them declaring a medical emergency? It just sounded so made up. The tracon bought it and that was all that mattered to me, but I was fully expecting the other pilots already holding to start coming up with sob stories
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Mar 3, 2015 22:33
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fordan posted:Did it seem like it was an Angel Flight or similar type of flight? Though I thought they usually used call signs like "Compassion." Those guys have their own call signs. This was a regional not calling themselves medevac or anything.
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Mar 4, 2015 23:53
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Tommy 2.0 posted:I honestly have only heard word of mouth for the reason. That word of mouth has told me it was between the union and management to reduce the amount of aircraft needed in the sectors for them to go "red". Simply, they just wanted to work less planes. Not because of an event, redesign, or weather. Which was also my first guess. That was the reason for the wording of my original post about this. I want some clarification because that is some serious weak sauce to me and I would love to hear a controller's reasoning from those sectors before I make a make a worthless judgement. That's the weakest area in the building. It's called "snow bird" because they are SUPPOSED to handle all that southbound traffic, but the numbers for 09 are set so low because of military airspace that sometimes goes active that most of it gets rerouted to the west (through my area). The pilots hate it. New York hates it. The rest of ZDC hates it. ZTL hates it. ZJX hates it.
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Mar 7, 2015 16:02
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The Ferret King posted:I'm starting to hate it by proxy. Flying an extra 200 miles because of one sector
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Mar 7, 2015 17:38
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KEHBECK One of my trainers would ding me on phraseology when I said KWABECK. Also there's a guy flying around with the tail number N38DD. How would you address him?
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Jun 12, 2015 20:19
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I work some very congested airspace and the primary returns can easily get lost in the mix.
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Jul 11, 2015 00:52
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I am still on FMLA SO I wasn't there for the crash but apparently it was not without warning. Looks like the people on those cushy details get to extend them a little longer.
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Aug 19, 2015 00:52
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MrYenko posted:We have a running fued with one of our approach controls, due in no small part to several controllers in my area being massive cocks. Teach me your ways, that I may learn to get others to shame my coworkers for me. The way I was told was that eram is currently like one of those xm-ready car stereos, it doesn't have the receiver but it is designed to work seamlessly when one is plugged in. AFAIK, the scopes on the floor are mode c only, and do not have ANY ads-b data sent to them. There may be a non operational scope somewhere in the building that shows it, but you don't get it on the floor.
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Sep 6, 2015 23:36
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There's light at the end of the tunnel. https://youtu.be/QPE8hspaI1k This guy just started here.
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Mar 28, 2016 15:37
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Where do I go to find bids for sups, tmu, etc? I'm trying to get back to the Richmond area, but without losing 40 k a year, and since err is shutdown at zdc, I'll have to find another way out
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Jun 13, 2016 13:10
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Yeah that's where I've been checking but nothing relevant ever gets posted.
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