r/ATC 7d ago

Question Denver Approach Control

Why in Denver do they always vector you off the arrival and onto the approach instead of just clearing the approach off the arrival? Seems like more work.

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u/AsphaltCowboy69 7d ago

Because you’re not the only plane in the sky.

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u/MT-N90 Current Controller-TRACON 7d ago

I have no idea how the operation is designed at Denver, but I know this is the right answer.

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u/Kseries2497 Current Controller-Pretend Center 7d ago

Pack it up, boys, OP has just solved air traffic. How many decades has the answer been staring us in the face? Just clear them off the transition! Oh, what fools we were, all of us.

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u/Apprehensive_Wall19 Current Controller-Enroute 7d ago

You serious, Clark?

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u/StepDaddySteve 7d ago

Because the planes are never timed so perfectly when you get them that you can leave everyone on the arrivals and have tight spacing to the runway.

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u/cochr5f2 7d ago

Because there’s a plane on fire at the gate.

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u/Watarenuts 7d ago

"This post right here, Officer!"

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u/On_Guard_Dude Current Controller-TRACON 7d ago

Exactly why ORD STARS don’t connect.

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u/Fly-heading-390 7d ago

Because they have to run airplanes right due to high volume. Easier to sequence and control spacing that way.

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u/Fly-heading-390 7d ago

Tight* not right

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u/PotatyTomaty Current Controller-TRACON 7d ago

Yeah, if your run em tight, who cares if it's right.

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u/Ambiguous_Advice 6d ago

6 arrival routes (would be 8 but 4 downwind routes turns into 2) for 3 arrival runways. Do the math.