Short Final: Tower Maintenance

Image: U.S. Army/Kendrick Adams
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Key Takeaways:

  • An Addison, Texas air traffic controller initially misunderstood a pilot's remark about their home tower in Daytona Beach resembling Addison's new, unfinished structure.
  • The pilot clarified that their tower would look similar due to impending hurricane damage, not new construction.
  • The pilot was in Addison to evacuate from the approaching hurricane in Daytona Beach.
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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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