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![]() "A Guy Called Tyketto" wrote in message et... Perhaps you should use your connections and ask that very same question to San Carlos Tower (KSQL), as they have pilots coming in exactly like this, and they *ARE* a Class D airport. No need to, I already know the answer. What makes you think NORCAL approach makes a phone call to San Carlos tower to coordinate VFR arrivals? In fact, it isn't only the TRACON that is doing this, KSFO Tower does this as well. Constantly and Consistently, the following is given to pilots: "N123CM, leaving Class Bravo airspace to the south, radar services terminated, maintain your present beacon code, contact San Carlos Tower, 119.0." That instruction tells you that San Francisco tower makes a phone call to San Carlos tower to coordinate VFR arrivals? Want proof of it, hit up the KSFO Tower feed at LiveATC. Interfacility phone calls are on LiveATC? Now, I haven't visited KSQL so I don't know if they have BRITE, but from my tour of NCT, controllers there told us that it is done so the tower knows who is who as they drop below the Class B floor. What would be the point in telling aircraft to maintain their present beacon code if SQL tower had no radar? For some they do call the tower to let them know who is coming in (pending how the traffic load is), some they don't. But it is a standard practice happening at one of the busiest centralized TRACONs in the airspace. More likely a misunderstanding on your part. |
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