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Aviation Audio Clips / Re: KDCA 5/17/25 Go-Arounds for instability, departing traffic, and a hawk

« Last post by baldiedc on Today at 02:34:03 »

And a compilation of the rest with reason if stated

UAL752 0630Z - unstable
AAL1542 1030Z
JIA5226 1424Z - delayed 2nd approach to resolve equipment issue - not sure if that was the issue with the 1st approach or happened later
JIA5200 1520Z - separation from runway traffic (slow departure roll)
DAL786 1900Z
AAL978Q 1944Z - unstable
SWA247 2141Z - too high
SWA321 2231Z - too low

and finally..
RPA5734 1117Z 5/18/25 (Sunday AM) - a hawk

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Aviation Audio Clips / Re: KDCA 5/17/25 Go-Arounds... RPA4463 unstable / FFX2 Police coordination

« Last post by baldiedc on Today at 02:23:07 »

~1830Z Fairfax Country PD c/s Fairfax-2 requests clearance to operate south of DCA over the GW Parkway.  JBU1554 cleared for takeoff with traffic 2.5mi out (RPA4463).  RPA4463 has an unstable approach and calls for go-around, proceeds on approach course and given a left turn to 130 to keep clear of helicopter to the West of the field and JBU1554 ahead of them going South.  FFX2 proceeds East to the South of DCA behind departing JBU1554.  Departures are briefly stopped while FFX2 positions but remains far enough South during their operation for departures to proceed.

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Aviation Audio Clips / Re: KDCA 5/17/25 Go-Arounds... AAL2205 for Georgetown medevac

« Last post by baldiedc on Today at 02:04:32 »

~1638Z AAL2205 approach clearance canceled for Medevac landing Georgetown...

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Aviation Audio Clips / KDCA 5/17/25 Go-Arounds ... ENVY9869 off-course approach rejected by Tower

« Last post by baldiedc on Today at 02:01:13 »

~1920Z ENVY9869 switches to Tower but significantly off-course for River Visual 19 by ~1nm parallel to the river.  Tower initially clears to land then advises they are headed towards Prohibited airspace (P56B), gives them vectors back to the approach course for Rwy 19, asks if field in sight, then cancels approach clearance and sends them back to Final, landed on 2nd attempt ~1934Z.

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Aviation Audio Clips / KDCA 5/17/25 Go-Arounds for wind, traffic, medevac, hawk and off-course approach

« Last post by baldiedc on Today at 01:51:35 »

Saturday was noticeably busy for go-arounds at DCA due to winds and use of Rwy 19 for most of the day, here's a thread of highlights of a day at DCA (in addition to the RPA5801 double go-around posted earlier, for wind and departing traffic separation)...

(posts to follow)

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Aviation Audio Clips / Philly Tracon Radar Outage

« Last post by RonR on May 19, 2025, 19:11:30 UTC »

By now I'm sure almost everyone is aware of the radar/communications outage that took place at the Philadelphia Tracon back on April 28.  It occurred in what they refer to as Area C which is primarily responsible for departures and arrivals into Newark Airport.  The outage lasted between 60-90 seconds during which time aircraft could not communicate with the Tracon and the controllers could not communicate with the aircraft under their control nor could they see them on radar.  Here is the condensed audio from that day.  The first file (...Outage.mp3) is a combination of two approach frequencies (128.55 and 120.15) and the second file (...Outage1.mp3) is from Newark Tower (118.3).

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Aviation Audio Clips / American Airliner hit by cargo cart at KPHI

« Last post by KB4TEZ on May 19, 2025, 16:24:16 UTC »

Date:   18-MAY-25
Time:   23:10:00Z
Regis#:   N524UW
Aircraft Make:   AIRBUS
Aircraft Model:   A321
Event Type:   INCIDENT
Highest Injury:   NONE
Aircraft Missing:   No
Damage:   UNKNOWN
LOCATION
City:   PHILADELPHIA
State:   PENNSYLVANIA
Country:   UNITED STATES
DESCRIPTION
Description:   AIRCRAFT WAS HOLDING SHORT OF TAXIWAY AND THE NOSE GEAR WAS STRUCK BY A DOLLY CART, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

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Aviation News (General) / Damage at London, KY airport planes medical helicopter destroyed

« Last post by KB4TEZ on May 19, 2025, 10:21:01 UTC »

https://www.wlky.com/article/aerials-tornado-airport-london-corbin-kentucky-damage/64801129

(wow, some incredible pic/video of what's left of the airport)

LONDON, Ky. —
The London-Corbin Airport in southeast Kentucky was devastated by the tornado that struck Friday night. 
Several vintage planes could be seen upended, flipped, and smashed.

The local medical helicopter was also destroyed. Medical supplies were scattered across the field with debris spread out across the airport runway.

Video of the tornado forming in the sky

Hangars and other buildings were completely leveled as well.

Officials told WLKY that at least one plane got sucked up into the funnel cloud.

Crews were on the scene cleaning up the debris.

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Feed Setup Pictures / Re: Setup help?

« Last post by RonR on May 18, 2025, 19:18:18 UTC »

Hey,

Check your email inbox for a reply from Support...

Ron

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Feed Setup Pictures / Re: Setup help?

« Last post by mburch on May 18, 2025, 15:18:06 UTC »

Revisiting this thread with a status update. LiveATC support has stopped answering my emails, so I'm hoping someone here might be able to help.

I bought a new Raspberry Pi 3B+, this time connected to my home network via Ethernet so I can work around the mystery problem with video. I went all the way back to the beginning, following LliveATC's emailed instructions exactly, starting from the installation of their custom software image and proceeding onward.

I got all the way up to the "test rtl_airband" step with no issues. I have an SDR plugged in and connected to a VHF antenna. This is what it gives me:

Warning: devices.[0]: assuming device type "rtlsdr", please set "type" in the device section.
Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner
Enabled direct sampling mode, input 2
[R82XX] PLL not locked!
Disabled direct sampling mode

 122.975                                                                     

 -48/-48 
 -47/-48 
 -47/-48 

I have no frame of reference to know if that's correct, but it looks like it's doing something.

The next step, where I run rtl_airband in the background and then attempt to connect to the feed URL they gave me, gives a 404 error.

I also went through the steps for installing check_ice, which went without incident. However, running it always results in the Pi rebooting:

Feed is DOWN - restarting
Warning: devices.[0]: assuming device type "rtlsdr", please set "type" in the device section.
Connection to liveatc.local closed by remote host.
Connection to liveatc.local closed.

At this point I believe I have faithfully followed all the instructions provided, but it doesn't work and I can't get ahold of support. I'd really like to get this working, so I'm hoping that someone has some suggestions! Thanks in advance.