Sorry, it's been awhile but I was just trying to get my basement boxes more organized and I came across my December 1980 OAG North American Pocket Flight Guide. Like I wrote previously, I knew that <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> didn't start <acronym title="Phoenix - Sky Harbor ...
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Jump to postOkay. I found my OAG guide from Winter of 1980 and it has a nice map of the terminals at <acronym title="Phoenix - Sky Harbor International (PHX / KPHX), USA - Arizona">PHX</acronym>. I wish I had a website to upload this to but by looking at the '75 map above you'll still get a good idea. Terminal ...
Jump to postI have the Sky Harbor terminal pamphlets from the late 70's through the early 90's. They're in a box in the basement and I can't start looking until later tonight, but I'll give it a try and see if I can locate them for you. Give me a little bit. That is a neat map from '87 though. Did anyone ever g...
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Jump to postThere's no reason to get mad Indy. Stirling's numbers are consistent with the official US Census numbers for growth between 1990 and 2000. So even though his numbers are two year estimates, they appear to be on target. US Census estimates between each decennial census aren't totally accurate, but du...
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Jump to postJust to give some relevance to these "booming" claims, I went to the US Census site to get the metropolitan area population growth rates. Unfortunately they don't have metro stats for the population estimates between the 2000 census and 2005 (you have to take the county estimates and then add them u...
Jump to postBri2k1, <b>You</b> don't like attitudes? This thread has six responses that didn't need to be here. You made a very good statement about circling approaches but it did have one error in it when you stated that a pilot must have ATC clearance to execute a circle to land maneuver. I merely clarified t...
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Jump to postIn regards to JohnJ's post, it does appear that the folks at the Memphis Commercial Appeal are a little paranoid. The Indianapolis Star has never claimed that FedEx was going to move it's <acronym title="Memphis - International (MEM / KMEM), USA - Tennessee">MEM</acronym> operations to <acronym titl...
Jump to postVery cool. I don't know if I could have pulled it off.
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Jump to postIND is FedEx's 2nd largest sorting hub, but it still has only half the number of daily flights and only a third of the tonnage of <acronym title="Memphis - International (MEM / KMEM), USA - Tennessee">MEM</acronym>. But then again Indy has four times the flights and tonnage as any of the regional Fe...
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Jump to postSince they're headquartered here in Indy, and I know that they're Republic Airlines, and they have the RPA identifier I am constantly catching myself starting to call them Republic every time I key up to say something to one of them, then I stop myself in midsentence and change it to Brickyard. I wi...
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Jump to postSorry about that, I forgot to add, we were talking about Indianapolis.
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Jump to postFrom the WLS story: "The FAA says, currently, the average salary is $190,000 and starting salaries are $66,000." WHAT?!? I work in a level 12 facility, the busiest that it gets, the top of the pay band. I've been an air traffic controller for 15 years, so I could be considered near the top of any AT...
Jump to postAny word on Mesa service to XVB or QJX?
Jump to postI noticed several people mentioning controllers saying "say again I was on the land line" as one of their pet peeves. If only you knew how much time controllers spend on land lines doing coordination. There are some sectors at work that have me spending about 70% of my time doing coordination with o...
Jump to postI'm not sure about the UK or about the terminal (tower) environment, but at Indy Center the shifts are staggered, and any time you relieve a controller from a position you'll take about five minutes monitoring the sector and with the current controller giving you a briefing on what is going on in th...
Jump to postIt can be stressful and there have been studies done that indicate that controllers' life expectancies are approximately seven to ten years less than their community peers. But I've never heard about suicide being that prevalent. In fact, I don't know any controllers that have committed suicide. I d...
Jump to postDoes anybody (MAH) know the number of daily flights to each of those nine cities, and the cities whose frequencies will be reduced, and by how much?
Jump to postLaxintl & LTBEWR are correct. I've worked quite a few Cubana flights at Indy Center over the last few years.
[Edited 2005-06-13 02:01:55]
Never forget that newspapers aren't here to inform us. They are here to make money. So while the chances of this happening are about one in a hundred, I'm sure that it got people excited about the paper. But I'm equally sure that any intelligent person that reads this article would quickly understan...
Jump to postFrom FlyAUA : "Serves him right for not using correct phraseology
Should have said REPORT AIRSPEED"
No, in the United States "say airspeed" is the correct phraseology.
To clarify OPNLguy's dot explanation somewhat. He is right about two dots between similar elements and one dot between dissimilar elements. But the two types of data connected by dots are any and all fixes (where you're going to or coming from - airport, VOR, waypoint, radial/<acronym title="Moscow ...
Jump to postIf it's a VFR day and therefore a glideslope doesn't come into play, a smaller aircraft is going to want to stay a little higher and land a little farther down the runway that any preceding larger aircraft in order to stay out of the larger aircraft's wake turbulence. That may have been what you wer...
Jump to postYeah, the fix names can get amusing. Two of the primary fixes on the HEHAW arrival into <acronym title="Nashville - International (Metropolitan) (BNA / KBNA), USA - Tennessee">BNA</acronym> are PICKN & GRNIN. One of the guys upstairs thought it would be cute to call our primary crossing fix on the S...
Jump to postAs was already stated they derive their name from the primary fix/navaid in their route. These fixes can be named for local geography (RIVRS arrival into <acronym title="St. Louis - Lambert-St. Louis International (STL / KSTL), USA - Missouri">STL</acronym>), NAVAID (all of the <acronym title="Chica...
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Jump to postIn a press release, Okun Enterprises said: "The cessation of service created concerns affecting all aspects of the purchase -- government agency approvals, re-certification, retention of key employees, assets -- all of which were just too difficult for us to overcome.'' Duh! That's why Southwest ...
Jump to postFlight152, basically non-discrete codes end in 00, and discrete codes don't.
1200 = non-discrete
0100 = non-discrete
3425 = discrete
7754 = discrete
[Edited 2005-04-18 04:22:17]
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Jump to postI don't care who's flying an <acronym title="Indianapolis - International (IND / KIND), USA - Indiana">IND</acronym>-<acronym title="Chicago - Midway International (MDW / KMDW), USA - Illinois">MDW</acronym> or <acronym title="Indianapolis - International (IND / KIND), USA - Indiana">IND</acronym>-<...
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