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Aviation Audio Clips / KDCA 10/5/25 - Multiple Medevacs Stop Arrivals at DCA Rwy 19

« Last post by baldiedc on October 08, 2025, 12:25:33 UTC »

DCA Sunday 10/5/25, a busy afternoon of Medevacs disrupt arrivals on Rwy 19...

1. 16:38Z - STAT18 from Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center to George Washington University Hospital on Route 1
2. 18:01Z - STAT18 from Cedar Hill to GW again; also Medstar2 (always entertaining on the radio) lifting Georgetown to the East
3. 18:15Z - Eagle2 responding to medevac call for incident on GW Parkway just north of DCA (later canceled).  AAL2775 previously delayed by STAT18 just makes DCA ahead of Eagle.
4. 18:27Z - Non-Medevac lifting DC Children's returning to Martinsburg gets confused on route clearance with Tower and proceeds wrong way down Route 1 towards DCA arrivals, gets turned around by Tower before Hains Point then proceeds to NW via Zone 2.
5. 19:19Z - Medstar3 from SE into Georgetown

Combinations of Heli/Tower/Final, edited for time & content, not realtime.

Flight tracks for context below.

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Aviation Audio Clips / Re: Government shutdown hits air travel as Burbank goes ATC0

« Last post by baldiedc on October 08, 2025, 01:55:55 UTC »

thanks - DCA on a roll past few days with medevacs on the river, just posted another from today, multiple from Sunday to come

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Aviation Audio Clips / KDCA 10/7/25 20:53Z USPP Medevac to Memorial Bridge - Stops DCA Arrivals (Again)

« Last post by baldiedc on October 08, 2025, 01:12:14 UTC »

Tuesday 10/7/25 20:53Z (4:53pm local) - USPP Eagle-1 (N11PP) requests clearance for Medevac call to Memorial Bridge under the Rwy 19 arrival path (actually landed at Memorial Circle on the VA side, not on the bridge itself).  JBU855 on short final continued inbound with visual separation approved for Eagle-1 traveling Northbound along Route 1.  Some misunderstanding/miscommunication appeared to cause some (rare) frustration between Tower and Eagle.

AAL2720 approach clearance canceled and sent back to Final, 4 others on Final given delay vectors.  Departures continued.  Fuel and alternates discussed given unknown timeframe for the delay but was not needed, Eagle medevac was canceled ~21:04Z and arrivals resumed inbound ~21:06Z, with brief hold for a departure per new separation rules as Eagle returned on the same route back to Anacostia.

This was the 3rd Medevac/SAR call for Eagle into the Rwy 19 arrival path in the past 4 days.

Attached combo Heli/Tower/Final/OJAAY from 2053-2108Z timeframe, edited for time and content and comms overlaps, not realtime etc.

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Aviation Audio Clips / Re: Helicopter crash critically injures 3 shuts down Highway 50 in Sacramento

« Last post by tyketto on October 07, 2025, 23:20:14 UTC »

I drove past the east side of this. My daughter was at her viola lessons with her instructor that lives roughly 2 miles west of the UC Davis hospital, so to get back to Rancho Cordova, we have to get on US-50 eastbound at 65th street. This happened a mile west of that. We saw the traffic backed up as well as multiple ambulances coming from the west to assist, but didn't know what exactly was going on. Traffic was clear for us all the way back to Rancho, but we didn't know why. When we got in and saw the stats on all of the NCT feeds, we found out.

BL.

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Aviation Audio Clips / Plane crashes in Mt Washington after departing from Louisville Bowman Field

« Last post by KB4TEZ on October 07, 2025, 19:56:03 UTC »

https://www.wave3.com/2025/10/06/biplane-crashes-mt-washington-due-incident-after-leaving-bowman-field-officials-say/

(wow, really felt for her not knowing, right to the end what ATC broke the good news.  Bit of a listen, but worth it.)

By Samantha Murray
Published: Oct. 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM EDT
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A small plane has gone down in Bullitt County, Kentucky, according to officials.

Louisville Regional Airport Authority spokesperson Natalie Chaudoin said a biplane departed Bowman Field at 2:04 p.m. on Oct. 6 with only the pilot on board.

Chaudoin said the plane was involved in an incident about 10 miles southeast of the airport, where it landed in Mt. Washington at 2:15 p.m. The pilot was reportedly alert and talking with first responders at the scene.

The biplane is not based at Bowman Field, Chaudoin said. It arrived at the airport last night.  The Louisville Regional Airport Authority, which owns and operates Bowman Field, is offering support to local and federal agencies since it was the originating airport, according to Chaudoin.

WAVE crews found the plane crashed off Erin Circle.  Bullitt County Sheriff Walt Sholar said the incident happened in the city limits of Mt. Washington. There was a single person on board, the pilot, and he was reportedly up walking and complaining of head pain.  WAVE News obtained audio from the Louisville Approach Control from when the plane was about to go down. The audio picks up in part this Mayday call: “Mayday, mayday, charlie foxtrot zulu, it’s charlie foxtroz. The pick is having a fuel problem. I can’t find him in the air at all. I don’t know where he went. He has a transponder code, so can you find him? I see smoke in the trees, so I’m going to see if that’s him.” 

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Aviation Audio Clips / Re: Helicopter crash critically injures 3 shuts down Highway 50 in Sacramento

« Last post by Fryy/AvoFlight on October 07, 2025, 19:15:17 UTC »

Been following this one closely. I sometimes monitor that hospital helipad freq for inbound/outbound traffic and Sacramento air-air freq on the KSUU feed, but I didn't have it up at the time. I did pull all the Fire Tac and EMS comms. Pretty hectic scene. 10-15 bystanders helped pull up the helicopter to rescue a trapped crew member.

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Listener Forum / Re: How Do I Know Which Feed When Tracking My Flight

« Last post by RonR on October 07, 2025, 13:10:01 UTC »

A short time ago I put together an ORD arrivals map (sort of lol).  After some extensive research (listening for hours lol), this map gives a fairly accurate idea of what frequencies Chicago Tracon uses for approaches to ORD.  It's handwritten so hopefully it's understandable.  Hopefully it helps!

Ron

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Aviation Audio Clips / Re: Government shutdown hits air travel as Burbank goes ATC0

« Last post by KB4TEZ on October 07, 2025, 12:47:05 UTC »

indeed it was.  listened around a bit too, Burbank seemed to be just a prime example of what everyone was thinking.
Love your DCA material too.
John

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Aviation Audio Clips / Re: Government shutdown hits air travel as Burbank goes ATC0

« Last post by baldiedc on October 07, 2025, 12:09:28 UTC »

The Ops plan advisory shows staffing triggers, it was a big list last night

https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt

https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis?adv_date=10062025&advn=68

   
EVENT TIME: 06/2200 - AND LATER
____________________________________________________________________

AIRCRAFT LANDING TEB THROUGH THE 2200Z HOUR MAY EXPERIENCE SOME
AIRBORNE HOLDING DUE TO A STAFFING TRIGGER.  SEVERAL MORE STAFFING
TRIGGERS HAVE BEEN ADDED SINCE THE LAST TELCON.  A EWR GROUND DELAY
PROGRAM WAS IMPLEMENTED DUE TO A PHL AREA C STAFFING TRIGGER.  THE
TWO ROUTES THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN THE NAS ARE ALSO DUE TO STAFFING.

____________________________________________________________________

STAFFING TRIGGER(S):
2300  0100   -PHL AREA C
UNTIL 0100   -D21 TRACON
UNTIL 0200   -ZJX NORTH AREA
UNTIL 0200   -ZJX CENTRAL AREA
UNTIL 0215   -ZID AREA 3
UNTIL 0300   -ZDV AREA 5
2330  0400   -ZDC AREA 1
UNTIL 0400   -DEN ATCT
2315  0445   -BUR ATCT
0115  0500   -C90 OPERATIONS
2300  0500   -PHX ATCT
0000  0500   -P50 OPERATIONS

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Aviation Audio Clips / Government shutdown hits air travel as Burbank goes ATC0

« Last post by KB4TEZ on October 07, 2025, 10:56:50 UTC »

https://abc7ny.com/post/government-shutdown-hits-air-travel-closing-control-tower-causing-delays-country/17956026/

(now for those of us who are used to flying non-towered airparks, KLNA for me, and some larger ones have towers not manned 24/7, I listened to this twice in utter amazement
as Burbank went ATC0.  Pilots and Socal became the tower, was something to listen to)

A pilot preparing to take off Monday from Hollywood Burbank Airport in California took the routine step of radioing the air traffic control tower.

But instead of the usual back-and-forth conversation of coordinating departure, the pilot received a different response: "The tower is closed due to staffing," according to audio recorded by LiveATC.net.

The exchange is one example of the impact the ongoing government shutdown is having on travelers across the US as air traffic controller staffing issues have led to delays at major airports and forced pilots in some areas to pivot to alternative workflows.

Controllers are considered essential workers, so they must work during the shutdown, but are not being paid.

Twelve Federal Aviation Administration facilities saw staffing shortages Monday night. The control towers in Burbank, Phoenix and Denver had so called "staffing triggers" reported in the public FAA operations plan. Other facilities that handle air traffic around airports in Newark, New Jersey; Jacksonville, Florida; Chicago, Washington, DC, and Indianapolis also were short staffed.  Perhaps the most dramatic impact was at the Burbank airport where the control tower was entirely shut down around 4:15 p.m. Monday afternoon. Flights could take off and land but had to follow procedures typically used at small airports without control towers. Delays of more than two and a half hours were reported at one point.

Denver International and Newark Liberty International airports saw ground delays where flights were prohibited from taking off until controllers were able to handle them. Both airports are major hubs for United Airlines; the airline did not respond to CNN's request for comment.

The number of controllers calling out sick has increased since the start of the shutdown, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a news conference Monday after talking with controllers in the tower at Newark.

"So now what they think about as they're controlling our airspace, is, 'How am I going to pay my mortgage? How do I make my car payment?'" he said. "Do I think they're more stressed right now in our towers? Yes. Is our airspace unsafe? No."

During this shutdown, Duffy said, the government will do what is necessary to keep the airspace safe.