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You forgot the karlruhe controllers who saw it all, and tried to call but the phone lines were down. They obeyed protocol and didn’t contact the planes that wer
by Maxion 3y ago
You forgot the karlruhe controllers who saw it all, and tried to call but the phone lines were down. They obeyed protocol and didn’t contact the planes that weren’t in their sector,even though they could have.
- rossdavidh 3y agoIt's a tough call. If they had contacted them, they also could have talked over instructions from the other sector's controller, for all they knew, which is presumably the reason for the protocol? Tough decision.
- seabass-labrax 3y agoI wonder whether, had they chosen to contact the aircraft outside their sector, the Skyguide controller would have heard them. With VHF radio being line of sight, the aircraft would probably have heard them, but Skyguide would be based at a ground station that was perhaps occluded by nearby mountains or other buildings. Where I live, I can't pick up a VHF ground station which is nearly in my line of sight only fifty kilometres away.