767-332ER From United States, joined Mar 2001, 2009 posts, RR: 9 Posted (3 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 14638 times:
With the new ATL tower being constructed and eventually tower close to 400ft...my question is which airport has the tallest tower in the world?
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FriendlySkies From United States, joined Aug 2004, 3553 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (3 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 14515 times:
Lubicon From Canada, joined Oct 2000, 197 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (3 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 14445 times:
Vancouver Harbour (Canada) at 465ft is the tallest in the world. It sits atop an office tower in downtown Vancouver and controls traffic (mainly seaplane and helicopter) into, out of and around vancouver Harbour.
From an 'Aviation Today' article.....
Nav Canada’s control tower at Vancouver Harbor (not to be confused with Vancouver International, the major airline hub several miles to the south) is a very different environment from Toronto-Pearson. Here the task of the tower’s nine-person staff is the dawn-to-dusk control of traffic at the seaplane aerodrome in Vancouver Harbor.
The Vancouver Harbor tower has just one workstation, yet it is a real tower, typically overseeing some 60,000 landings and takeoffs, plus about 35,000 overflights, per year. Almost all are commercial movements, roughly 60 percent of them, float planes. The balance largely is helicopters, which arrive and depart from a four-pad heliport, just off the shoreline. Overflights include sightseeing tours, banner tows and, on weekends, recreational fliers. The flights also include movie shoots, the result of Vancouver’s seeming transformation in the summer into "Hollywood North," with sound trucks and miles of cable snaking along the waterfront streets. Vancouver Harbor is a busy airport but not fast-paced. It averages about 90 movements a day in the winter and 150 daily in the summer.
The fixed-wing traffic runs the gamut, from small Cessnas to Twin Otters, with an occasional Beaver, Otter and rare birds like Noorduyn Norsemen adding spice to the mix. This fixed-wing traffic is paralleled by scheduled Sikorsky S-76 passenger operations that, with more than 25,000 annual helicopter movements, make the harbor’s heliport by far the busiest in Canada. In fact, the harbor tower is probably setting other aviation records, when the total number of fixed- and rotary-wing movements is compared to the small volume of airspace it controls, i.e., 12 by 4 miles (19.3 by 6.4 km), from zero to 2,000 feet.
But, while the tower was commissioned in 1978, Nav Canada has ensured that it stays on the cutting edge of new technology. For example, it has touch-screen communications technology identical to that installed at Toronto-Pearson’s tower. Vancouver Harbor is equipped with both IIDS and EXCDS, like Toronto-Pearson, although they include fewer features. And, also like Toronto-Pearson, the harbor tower has a radar display linked to the local control center’s radar, although this is used by tower controllers for traffic monitoring and does not provide conflict resolution or vectors. Automated terminal information service (ATIS) also is provided and, although the harbor has no dedicated navigation or approach aids, it does have two public GPS non-precision approaches plus nine private GPS procedures assigned to the local commercial operators.
There’s no inferiority complex towards big league towers among Vancouver Harbor controllers. They claim two advantages that their Toronto brethren can never enjoy. The first is their spectacular location. Upon entering the harbor control cab, visitors are overwhelmed by its 360-degree panoramic view, with the city of Vancouver spread out behind, Pacific-bound vessels moving out to the west, snow capped mountains to the north and, directly below, Alaska cruise ships loading and unloading tourists at 2,500 passengers a clip. The key to the breathtaking view is the tower’s location, atop one of the city’s highest office buildings on the harbor shoreline. As one official joked, "This is the best view in Vancouver. If we charged tourists $10 a head to come up here, we’d make millions."
The cab’s perch makes the Vancouver Harbor tower higher than Pearson’s. Such a vantage point for controllers, plus the light traffic, negate the need for any surface management tools. Weather can put the tower into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), but such conditions would preclude any movements at the airport, as well.
Vancouver Harbor controllers are amused by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s claim, in October 2002, that the newly opened, 345-foot (105-meter)-high tower at Orlando Airport had become "the tallest control tower in North America." They politely suggest that to merit the "tallest tower" title, Orlando would have to grow at least another 120 feet (36.5 meters) to beat the harbor tower’s 465 feet (141-meters). But they don’t bear a grudge. They simply call this the highest tower in the world.
Isitsafenow From United States, joined Feb 2004, 3460 posts, RR: 20 Reply 7, posted (3 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 14143 times:
There was a story on Discovery or TLC last summer on this topic.
MCO, as of last August, had the tallest in the USA. Kuala Lumpur has one under construction that will be the tallest by a few feet over THE worlds tallest...and I don't remember which tower it is but its in the far east someplace.
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Isitsafenow From United States, joined Feb 2004, 3460 posts, RR: 20 Reply 8, posted (3 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 14 hours ago) and read 14094 times:
Ok..after reading a little on the net, heres the lowdown on the tallest control towers..
MCO... tallest in USA today at 345 ft.
ATL.....at 398ft it will be the tallest in USA when completed
Kuala Lumpur has the tallest in the world today at 425 feet
HOWEVER
Bankok will have a tower apx 132 meters which should top the Kuala Lumpur by just a few feet.
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Isitsafenow From United States, joined Feb 2004, 3460 posts, RR: 20 Reply 10, posted (3 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 14003 times:
Don't kill the messenger..I just read from a few sites off the web dedicated to control towers. I saw nothing mentioning Vancouver. Perhaps if the control tower sits atop a building, then its not considered as a "control tower".
I guess it remains to be seen if the Vancouver structure is rated the highest.
The beat goes on....
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Isitsafenow From United States, joined Feb 2004, 3460 posts, RR: 20 Reply 12, posted (3 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 13947 times:
Never mind..........
Its not important or worth debating.
I made my point
You made yours.
nighty-night.......
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HaveBlue From United States, joined Jan 2004, 1261 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (3 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 13723 times:
I would say that the results that leave Vancouver out are doing so because it isn't a purpose built, stand alone control tower. Sitting on top of an office building is not quite the same thing as bieng built, ground up, as a control tower.
The Vancouver tower and its view sound fascinating, and I'd love to visit it, but if you put a control cab on top of the Chicago Sears building, I wouldn't give it the distinction of the worlds tallest control tower. Perhaps the worlds highest control cab though
Airbus Lover From Malaysia, joined Apr 2000, 3247 posts, RR: 6 Reply 15, posted (3 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 13626 times:
A stand alone purpose built control tower, Kuala Lumpur International's is the world's tallest at 425ft. End of story. Bangkok's new airport will have a taller one. Simple as that.
EZYAirbus From United Kingdom (England), joined Sep 2003, 2230 posts, RR: 51 Reply 16, posted (3 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 12740 times:
Heathrows new tower once finished is gonna be pretty big!
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