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FNO Visited the Gateways to the West


Karen Dunbar 1002434
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Karen Dunbar 1002434
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This Friday nights’ FNO was really about east and west. Kansas City and St. Louis drew traffic from all over the US, and split the traffic almost evenly. A number of clever pilots took advantage of having two fully staffed airports close together and filed flightplan after flightplan, circling between the two hosts. Those pilots certainly piled up the “full ATCâ€

Karen Dunbar

Events Director

VATUSA

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Andrew Musselman
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Pretty good job by KC. I can see me there 0AM coming in from Chi-Town in the slow CJ1.

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Mark Brummett
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It was pretty fun and uneventful by FNO standards. I had three definitive rushes as I worked MCI Tower. Each rush usually was about 8 to 10 aircraft down the line. Had some departures to STL which made things fun.

 

Then, right before I closed down and we had several aircraft on the downwind segment, we had a pretty abrupt wind shift (from 200 @ 10 to 040 @ 29 gusting 38), so I'm switching ATIS and telling both my approach controllers to switch configurations. Both John Holt and Jason Helkenberg deserve a HUGE pat on the back for the way they vectored these guys back to the south to get north flow going, and had it done within 5 minutes.

 

I will most likely start a weekly thing with another ZKC controller starting this week; we'll man two Cl[Mod - Happy Thoughts] D airports and focus on VFR work between the two, and work pattern work locally at the field.

Mark Brummett

Website owner, http://www.zkcartcc.org

ZKC Events Co-ordinator

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