It's a nice VFR Sunday afternoon. Comair comes off Albany going to JFK. Normally, Albany Departure puts the aircraft on a 330 heading so I can climb above BDL/EWR traffic as shown in my last post. In this case, there are skydivers just northwest of the field, so Departure puts the aircraft on a 360 heading, straight north. There are a few ALB arrivals coming from the west mingling with some other VFRs, so no sense taking him all the way around to the north and then back to the west and south...
"Put him on a 090 heading, mainatin 14000."
A loop departure is in full effect as I quickly clear the plane southbound to IGN and climb him to FL200. He cuts behind a BDL arrival and remains west of a BTV arrival at 15000. A pointout to CANAN and PWL sectors, "contact Boston Center 125.57" and I go back to my LGA spacing and the VFRs flying around...
Till next time....
DM
PS EDIT: Apparently, the plane wasn't done making right turns....
For you NexGen fans out there, take note: The blue dashed line is the filed arrival route, and the green line is the track flown. Getting rid of radar will never fix this. Bulldozing LGA might. Oh, but then where would all the LGA traffic go? JFK? yeah...
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We used to do a lot of holding for ORD. At the two or three lowest altitudes, we'd usually ship them to ORD in the hold and they'd pull them out. But it wasn't uncommon, particularly if they were going to pull heavy on your fix, to vector out of the hold ourselves. Many is the time the right call was to have to go "the long way around" to make the sequence work. I always included that in the clearance so there wasn't any doubt. "Turn right, the long way around, heading 040."
LRod
ZJX, ORD, ZAU Retired
That's the frustration of being a scanner listener - I never know the WHY of those odd departures. Today, a Miami Air flight - which seemed to be related to a certain VIP movement - took an oddball departure.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BSK3000
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