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FAA issues nationwide ground stop (www.cnbc.com)
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The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop on Friday afternoon, “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.”

A ground stop halts flights at their departure point.

Inbound international flights will be managed on a case by case basis, the FAA said.

The FAA didn’t immediately comment further.

Nationwide ground stops are extremely rare. In January 2023, the FAA halted flights because of issues with a pilot alert system. Before that, traffic was halted nationwide after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

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[–] 76 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

This story made me realize how cool it is this kind of chatter is public and accessible.

There's also some real gems.

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  • [–] 22 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

    You can buy an cheap baofeng radio and most will do airband. Then you could listen to planes and ATC in your area.

    Most of the time they don't say anything interesting

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  • [–] 18 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    They do sound cool though. I had a walkie talkie set as a kid that incidentally picked up aircraft chatter when they were above the horizon. I didn't try talking back because I could not think of anything a pilot might want to know.

    Gotta love the 80s.

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  • [–] 13 points 15 hours ago* (1 child)

    If you want to do something a little bit more modern you can get a RTL SDR and recieve ADS-B information.

    If you use https://github.com/MalcolmRobb/dump1090

    And https://github.com/wiedehopf/tar1090

    You can have an at home air radar.

    Now in terms of just listening I really enjoy my Quasheng UK-V5. It has really good air band receive.

    I am shocked a walkie talkie could receive any air chatter but maybe they used to be AM. I think all of the new ones are FM.

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  • [–] 11 points 14 hours ago

    Dollar General had what amounted to a modern SMD spiritual version of the those old walkie talkies. Individual SMD transisters and everything. Worked on the old ~49Mhz band.

    Pretty sure it was FM based.

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