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Controllers Not a Contributing Factor to Southwest Landing
U.S. Senator says FAA controllers did what they were supposed to. (www.cnn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I think the Senator should have left commenting about the incident to the NTSB, since they are the agency of record.
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If I'm reading this whole thing right, I'm in agreement with you. According to everything I have seen, the flight plan was not closed, hence to the field. It looks like the tower or somebody would have said something about the deviation. Strange
I think we gave our GPS satellites to China as an interest payment. They're messing with us. Lol
I was wondering the same thing.
There is a post at the top from nofossil70 that explains
ATC will send an aircraft to Advisory frequency about 10-15 miles from the airport so the pilots can be free to communicate with any possible traffic departing/arriving the uncontrolled airport. That being the case they probably were not in contact with ATC when it would have been obvious that they were landing at the wrong airport. After a professional pilot tells you he has the airport in sight you believe them especially when they are flying an aircraft with GPS, moving map, FMS etc..
In short, as a controller you can't babysit everyone or else a more critical situation may develop. Professional pilots are going to be watched less closely then a student on a cross country because they don''t need more supervision.
Lastly, MSAW alerts are inhibited when within a certain distance from an airport/centerline of the runway, Since they were on the final to a runway it probably didn't go off. The computer doesn't recognize if they are on final to the wrong runway,
Hopefully this clears up a bit.
In short, as a controller you can't babysit everyone or else a more critical situation may develop. Professional pilots are going to be watched less closely then a student on a cross country because they don''t need more supervision.
Lastly, MSAW alerts are inhibited when within a certain distance from an airport/centerline of the runway, Since they were on the final to a runway it probably didn't go off. The computer doesn't recognize if they are on final to the wrong runway,
Hopefully this clears up a bit.