In the sidebar section Everything You Say Can and Will… of Tarrance Kramers Fibbing on Frequency in August, he said that everything you say is recorded. I once heard that a controller can put a hack mark on the tape to mark where a discussion or a disagreement has taken place. True?
ATC controllers do not "hack" or mark recordings directly; instead, they manually document incident details (time, call sign) for supervisors to retrieve specific audio/radar segments.
A certified, operational clock displaying hours, minutes, and seconds is technically required for IFR flight under 14 CFR 91.205(d), even if its enforcement by the FAA is not always prioritized.
Discussion of an instrument approach procedure revealed that the combination of VDP (Visual Descent Point), MDA (Minimum Descent Altitude), and minimum visibility can make a safe and legal descent to landing impossible, and charted missed approach courses can appear geographically misleading.
In the sidebar section “Everything You Say Can and Will…” of Tarrance Kramer’s “Fibbing on Frequency” in August, he said that everything you say is recorded. I once heard that a controller can put a “hack” mark on the tape to mark where a discussion or a disagreement has taken place. True?
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