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?
Air Traffic Controllers (ATCs) do not "hack" recordings; instead, they manually log incident details (time, call sign, event) for supervisors to retrieve audio and radar recordings.
An operational, certified clock displaying hours, minutes, and seconds is a legally required piece of equipment for IFR flight under 14 CFR 91.205(d), holding the same regulatory status as gyroscopic instruments and two-way radios, despite potential lax enforcement.
The article clarifies instrument approach procedures, emphasizing that the Visual Descent Point (VDP) should allow for a normal descent, which may be unfeasible with minimum visibility, and points out charting inconsistencies where the depicted missed approach course can be geographically misaligned with the actual missed approach point.
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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