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Old 04-18-2006, 02:00 PM  
Kimmykim
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Originally Posted by ronaldo
From... http://www.lawa.org/lax/flighttracks.cfm

Here's the reason I could never do that job...

http://www4.passur.com/lax.html

Scroll out to 20 or 40 miles and imagine keeping that under control.
Yeah but if you scroll out 40 miles you're now talking about including alot more than just LAX and the transit traffic -- you've got Burbank, Ontario, Long Beach, John Wayne (OC), as well as LAX, and that's just for the larger airports -- there's also Van Nuys, Santa Monica, Torrance etc in there as well.

The number of actual arrivals and departures to LAX isn't that many of the planes on the map proportionately. I'm not saying it's an easy job at all, just that the map is a bit confusing when you figure that you've got about 35,000 feet of vertical room to sort out the ones just flying by but not landing or taking off...
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