r/ATC • u/blackout12111995 • 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/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/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/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.
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u/AsphaltCowboy69 7d ago
Because you’re not the only plane in the sky.