littlezav

Im at erau going for ait traffic control. My teacher told us that you can block out trucks on the radar by setting the radar to only pick up objects that are traveling faster than a certain speed. How come you dont use that? ( i cant remember what he called it)

Does your username have anything to do with the aviation use of adsb?

wait, i thought STARs and SIDs were just arrival and departure procedures, not a whole system.

any advice for a current cti student going for atc?

Pilot here. First off, there aren't actually "air pockets". They don't exist in the atmosphere. It was just very strong turbulence. Planes don't really drop that much altitude in turbulence. Maybe 10 or 20 feet. A 2,000 foot drop in a couple of seconds is insane, it just doesn't happen. I'll be generous and say that the big turbulence he encountered was over a period of 10 seconds (for that bump when he hit his head). If the plane descended 2000 feet in 10 seconds, that means the descent rate is 12,000 feet per minute. In his case, it happened much quicker than 10 seconds so it would be a descent rate many times faster than 12,000 feet per second. That just doesn't happen in a commercial plane.

It was just very very rough patch of turbulent air.