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MSP adds new plane viewing area
MSP has opened an officially-sanctioned place for people to view and photograph aviation traffic. (www.mprnews.org) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Thats awesome! Definitely planning a visit to MSP now. A word to the wise… keep it clean!
I wish my airport would do something like this. This is really terrific. Perhaps I'll get the chance to go there some day.
Here is another article about this: http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_29060396/msp-airport-has-new-place-watching-planes
For the sake of full disclosure, I was interviewed for the article while I was there a few weeks ago. I am one of the two people in the picture.
For the sake of full disclosure, I was interviewed for the article while I was there a few weeks ago. I am one of the two people in the picture.
Thank you, Phil, for the link. Do some bird-watching for me, while you're at it. KMSP > KGNV
Now if they can only feed ATC to the area, like Las Vegas does.
get your own radio - then you can tune in to any freq you want... not expensive - radio shack used to have a good one for under $30
I have one; I've had it for 17 years. My point is that for a dedicated spotting area, it would be great to have ATC piped over, say FM radio, to your car or area in question.
KLAS has this at their parking/spotting area next to runway 25L. KVGT (North Las Vegas Airport) has this in their parking area between the approach ends of runway 7 and 12R. At both locations, they have the Local Controller (Tower) fed through a given FM frequency to your car, where you can listen to it there, allowing you to tune to, say, the final Approach frequency, to catch a given flight from 30 miles out all the way down.
Also, for those without a scanner, they could tune their car stereo to that frequency and just hear tower.
KLAS has this at their parking/spotting area next to runway 25L. KVGT (North Las Vegas Airport) has this in their parking area between the approach ends of runway 7 and 12R. At both locations, they have the Local Controller (Tower) fed through a given FM frequency to your car, where you can listen to it there, allowing you to tune to, say, the final Approach frequency, to catch a given flight from 30 miles out all the way down.
Also, for those without a scanner, they could tune their car stereo to that frequency and just hear tower.
OK stand corrected, I agree
BE VERY CAREUL. IT'S UNLAWFUL TO HAVE A SCANNER IN YOUR CAR IN MINNESOTA.