Afternoon All,

I have a possibly stupid question, and could do with your FTers expertise and help.

I have done a search, and cannot find anything on this, and if this is in the wrong place, sorry

LiveATC.net. Is it live? Weird question right? But I cannot work it out, it claims live feeds etc, however after a certain time, it just cuts off, and you can listen to the same thing over again if you wish!

Could someone explain how this works for me? I have been in the business a long time, and know alot about "Ops", but this has me stumped!!

Thanks

I think they are live because I listen to YYZ and it never repeats for me

I've never had it repeat for me. Also, occasionally I will track flights I hear landing, and it's always matched up when I've done that.

I've never heard it repeating. I've even heard position reports from flights I have been flying on..

My understanding is LiveATC has a network of volunteers with receivers tuned into frequencies used for aviation. That is why you see such a varied mix of airports and facilities. Depending on where the antennas are placed, some traffic comes in loud and clear while other may be more garbled.

The comms are then streamed up to LiveATC's servers. Depending on the reliability of the volunteer's connection or whether their computer is being used for something else, the streams may cut out or be unavailable. Generally the volunteers are very reliable and committed so stream dropouts are few and far between for the airports I listen to. For the most part, everything is very close to realtime.

Each stream is archived in 30 minute blocks. It's a great tool for those going after their private pilots license. Going back and listening to how you work with ATC is valuable as a learning tool. For fun, check out the interesting comms section. You hear lots of classics like "Bad Day at JFK Ground" and my favorite where JFK Ground asked a Comair RJ what it was like to be positioned behind an A380. The response came in, "It's biiiiig" followed by "Lots of wheels"

Thank you all for your replies,

So I am thinking that, yes, it is live, but is looped for a ceratin amount of time? and that would be the reason that if you listen for let's say 1 hour, and then pulled it back to the start, then the transmission repeats, however if you refresh, then the live feed starts once again?

Sorry for being so blonde (no offence to any blonde's out there!) ... I dont usually get confused this easily, but boy! am having trouble with this one :P ...

Can you give a link please? I searched the site but couldn't find it.

Thanks!

http://www.liveatc.net/recordings.php

Here's the link ...

I did find that website... but I can't find the specific recording.

No problemo. Goto the recordings page and do a search for, "whats the bottom of a super like"

The date is 1/25/2010 at 21:11.