Short Final: Tower Maintenance

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Key Takeaways:

  • An air traffic control exchange at Addison, Texas, involved a pilot commenting on the local, unfinished new control tower.
  • The pilot from Daytona Beach initially implied their tower would soon resemble Addison's, which the controller misinterpreted as also getting a new tower.
  • The pilot clarified that Daytona Beach's tower would look unfinished due to an impending hurricane, explaining their evacuation to Addison.
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In 2006, Addison, Texas, the new tower structure was up, but without windows and a few walls. I was taxiing out to the runway and overheard this exchange:

Addison Tower: “Lear Eight Tango Fox, turn right at Golf and taxi to parking.”

Lear 8TF: “Right at Golf. Our Tower is going to look like your new one.”

Tower: “Really? Where’s that?”

Lear 8TF: “Daytona Beach.”

Tower: “Are you also getting a new tower?”

Lear 8TF: “No, we are getting a hurricane; that’s why we’re here.”

Bob Orth
Garland, TX

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