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mtlatc Epic Member In a bus down by the river!

Air Force traffic count is a farce. I watched controllers count a touch and go twice if the student pilot bounced on the RY. Ohh...and a flight of 4 out Nellis on a Red Flag mission counting as 100 ops.......

mikecoyne34 Trusted Contributor BNA

it is a 130 base. there's just a lot of them and they're always flying. little rock has AETC, AMC and ANG squadrons. the flying is prodominatly AETC though.
im sure the numbers from all bases are fudged a little bit. not as accurate as the faa's system.

mikecoyne34 Trusted Contributor BNA

forgot to mention... this is how it was explained to me, places like columbus and shepherd, your bases with the 38s and 37s usually have 2+ runways. only one runway is worked by the tower, the others are worked by an unstructor pilot just giving WX and the occasional traffic call. all the tower does is clear them for their initial takeoff and final landning and they work all emergencies. i would imagine those towers would have some huge numbers, traffic count wise, if the tower worked everything.
anyone who has been to these bases correct me if im wrong. im only saying what ive heard.

mtlatc Epic Member In a bus down by the river!

I was at Sheppard, the numbers are a farce to say the least...yes we worked hard, just not as hard as the number say.

Radium Epic Member SoCal Tracon

but when all bases count numbers like that, then its still an acurate rating as a whole. I did my part and didnt write 50% of my strips!

ClayZ1989 Newcomer Eielson AFB, AK

Traffic count is a joke. Its all people just clicking whatever they feel like it. No planes around? Go click some more!!!

polo708 Epic Member tower

most FAA facilities have their traffic count done automatically from the STARS

NizmoSR20 The Silver Bullet Ft. Worth, Texas!

Facsfac Vacapes has the largest amount of airspace of all military facilities, but there's days when its slow as balls, seriously 2 aircraft an hour in each sector, all the way up to a fly off in all sectors, depending on where the ships are at and what the RKTX, MSLX, GUNX, and all the other "X's" not to mention all the notams and other special missions goin on at the same time. There's been 85 aircraft in my airspace, in/out/transit within 45 minutes. Not denoting any other facilities, but i'd say thats a good amount of work... fun too...

SSgt Young StuckMic Marine Corps Liaison California

Nas Meridean has the highest traffic count from last year. 187k and change vfr tower ops all year long

VBeachR32 Junior Member

Giant Killer sux.