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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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[–] 14 points 1 day 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 1 day 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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