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

« Last post by RonR on October 08, 2025, 21:06:49 UTC »

Yea, you're right, they have stopped using 125.0 altogether as far as I can tell apparently bc of interference on that frequency.  Forgot to update my handwritten chart lol!  Thanks!

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Aviation Audio Clips / Small Aircraft Crash Lands on Utah Lake Shoreline

« Last post by KB4TEZ on October 08, 2025, 13:32:19 UTC »

https://countryherald.com/news/utah-county-plane-emergency-small-aircraft-crash-lands-on-utah-lake-shoreline/

(plane as he landed the comms are not audible on the recording, but confimed all ok to ATC)

Vineyard, UT – A small single-engine plane made an emergency landing on the shoreline of Utah Lake Monday evening after experiencing engine trouble mid-flight, according to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office.

The aircraft had taken off from South Valley Airport in West Jordan and was flying over Utah County when the pilot began noticing mechanical issues. According to officials, the pilot attempted to troubleshoot the problem and initially aimed for Provo Airport before realizing they wouldn’t make it.  The pilot then executed an emergency landing along the Vineyard shoreline of Utah Lake. Fortunately, both the pilot and a passenger escaped the incident without injury. Authorities confirmed that no one on the ground was hurt.

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

« Last post by JetScan1 on October 08, 2025, 12:49:53 UTC »

A short time ago I put together an ORD arrivals map

Using the chart from that SOP document I added the STAR names and frequencies. This is just based on monitoring over the last week but seems consistent with what you heard Ron. On the SOP chart it appeared to show when landing east that the TRTLL STAR was one used as a secondary from the SW but so far I've only heard them use the BENKY STAR as a secondary to SHAIN, so I added it to my chart. The few times I checked they were using 128.575 as the overnight frequency.

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

« Last post by baldiedc on October 08, 2025, 12:26:57 UTC »

Flight tracks

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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.