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Old Mar 3, 2010 | 4:17 am
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Originally Posted by N1120A
This is not at all a new thing and I see nothing wrong with it as long as the field isn't busy and the kid is well supervised and not doing any sort of vectoring. Indeed, a trained parrot could probably run LAX local 99.5% of the time given the lack of vectoring involved there.
Hmmm... when flying near CMH one day a few years ago the TRACON controller had a young lady make a few calls to aircraft. I'm sure it made her day, and I know it put a smile on the faces of the pilots.
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