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Multiple control towers?
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:44:35 -0400, B A R R Y
wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:32:49 -0700, Hamish Reid wrote: My home field, Oakland (KOAK), is quite a bit smaller than DFW but it has two completely separate towers... Interesting... Do you know why? Is there a terrain feature that prevents one tower from seeing the whole field? Are the towers short? Some very large Bravo airports here in the east only have one tower, as the only folks who need to be in the cab are the controllers who need to physically see the field. Everyone else (approach / departure / enroute, FSS, etc...) can be in the basement or even a different building. At Beaumont (Jefferson County) airport Beaumont approach and departure are in the tower but not in the Cab (the glass enclosure for the airport controller) The approach and departure controller sit in a windowless room on the second floor of the tower. -- Jim in Houston osPAm Nurse's creed: Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches!! RN does NOT mean Real Nerd! -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Multiple control towers?
B A R R Y wrote:
Some very large Bravo airports here in the east only have one tower, as the only folks who need to be in the cab are the controllers who need to physically see the field. Everyone else (approach / departure / enroute, FSS, etc...) can be in the basement or even a different building. DFW is sprawling. Your options are to make the tower way tall, and way big so you can fit all the controllers in it such that they can see everything, or you can distribute things. When Dulles's new 300+ foot tower becomes operational, it will have three sets of local (tower) and ground controllers working in it as well as clearance delivery and supervisory positions. That will be in addition to the existing ramp tower which controls traffic pretty much between the terminals and the one on the Udvar-Hazy tower which serves no useful function other than being a great place to watch arrivals (now if I could just get them to put real ATC audio and maybe a live radar feed, the exhibit has a prerecorded one from EWR of all places). |
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Multiple control towers?
Jim wrote:
At Beaumont (Jefferson County) airport Beaumont approach and departure are in the tower but not in the Cab (the glass enclosure for the airport controller) The approach and departure controller sit in a windowless room on the second floor of the tower. At Dulles, the radar room for Dulles Approach was one floor down from the cab (the strips just fall a short distance). At DCA, the new tower had the radar room in the basement. The tube for the strips actually fell 12 stories or whatever. Periodically you call the elevator and find a bucket of strip holders in it that are being returned to the cab. Now both approach controls along with the ones for BWI, ADW, and RIC (none of which I've been in) are out at the fringe of the class B at Vint Hill (Potomac Approach). I asked one of the controllers how hard you have to throw the strips to jump the intervening 20 miles. The new Dulles tower does have central VAC. |
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Multiple control towers?
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:17:24 -0400, Ron Natalie
wrote: When Dulles's new 300+ foot tower becomes operational, it will have three sets of local (tower) and ground controllers working in it as well as clearance delivery and supervisory positions. JFK lists the single tower as 338, and the ground is ~ 12 MSL, so that tower will be similar. |
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