Tower Enroute Control?

[Sam Jones]

Tower Enroute Control has me confused. What does the Tower have
to do with? It appears to be flight plans that use TRACONS or
RAPCONS for radar services rather than going to the center. So
why is it called Tower Enroute Control? In Boston Approach
isn't even in the same state as the BOS tower, wouldn't it make
more sense to say TRACON enroute control? Or did I miss
something where the tower is involved instead. Is TEC available
at any towers without radar?

[Teacherjh]

>>
Tower Enroute Control has me confused. What does the Tower have
to do with?
<<

It's a misnomer, really.

Jose

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[Bob Gardner]

Just use it as designed and don't worry about the semantics.

Bob Gardner

"Sam Jones" > wrote in message
...
> Tower Enroute Control has me confused. What does the Tower have
> to do with? It appears to be flight plans that use TRACONS or
> RAPCONS for radar services rather than going to the center. So
> why is it called Tower Enroute Control? In Boston Approach
> isn't even in the same state as the BOS tower, wouldn't it make
> more sense to say TRACON enroute control? Or did I miss
> something where the tower is involved instead. Is TEC available
> at any towers without radar?
>

[Steven P. McNicoll]

"Sam Jones" > wrote in message
...
>
> Tower Enroute Control has me confused. What does the Tower have
> to do with?
>

Nothing. It's a misnomer.


>
> It appears to be flight plans that use TRACONS or
> RAPCONS for radar services rather than going to the center.
>

Exactly.


>
> So why is it called Tower Enroute Control?
>

I used to wonder why it was called anything at all.

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Sam Jones > wrote:

>Tower Enroute Control has me confused. What does the Tower have
>to do with?

It goes back a long long time, and they just never changed the name.

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wrote:

> Sam Jones > wrote:
>
> >Tower Enroute Control has me confused. What does the Tower have
> >to do with?
>
> It goes back a long long time, and they just never changed the name.

Exactly. Back to when the Western region thought they ran the entire
FAA.