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Offline tmuller02

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Some help
« on: July 22, 2012, 09:25:56 PM »
Tracking a flight from gso to kphl the flight was in was center then it said faa tracon what is that

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Re: Some help
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2012, 04:34:40 PM »
From Wilipedia:

Approach and terminal control
 
 Potomac TRACON, Washington, D.C., United States.

Many airports have a radar control facility that is associated with the airport. In most countries, this is referred to as Terminal Control; in the U.S., it is referred to as a TRACON (Terminal Radar Approach Control.) While every airport varies, terminal controllers usually handle traffic in a 30-to-50-nautical-mile (56 to 93 km) radius from the airport. Where there are many busy airports close together, one consolidated Terminal Control Center may service all the airports. The airspace boundaries and altitudes assigned to a Terminal Control Center, which vary widely from airport to airport, are based on factors such as traffic flows, neighboring airports and terrain. A large and complex example is the London Terminal Control Centre which controls traffic for five main London airports up to 20,000 feet (6,100 m) and out to 100 nautical miles (190 km).