My understanding is that while the basic model is for each "service"
(arrival, tower, departure, etc.) to have an individual controller and an
individual frequency for each, but that during low-traffic periods a single
controller may handle more than one service. However, he will continue to
use the frequency assigned to each service as that is the frequency listed
on charts, etc.





"Cub Driver" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:36:07 -0700, "Jay Beckman"
wrote:

Dunno about John Galiban, but I can't remember Chandler ever giving me a
base entry without requesting that I report at "X miles."

Funnily enough, Chandler is the only towered field I've ever flown
from. (I have a recreational certificate and until September had to be
endorsed for each ATC field individually.) It drove me crazy because I
regularly had to deal with three frequencies, and the plane of course
had but two radios.

I'd be taking off and instructed to make a turn at 400 feet, much too
low by my way of thinking, and simultaneously to change freqs. I'd
scramble and scramble and finally breathlessly say: Six Two Echo is
with you! and behold! the same voice would come back. Why was I
changing freqs if I wasn't changing controllers? I found the radio
work more exhausting than the aerobatics!


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