• CatAssTrophy@safest.space
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    2 days ago

    Upvoted you, but they frequently fly out of smaller/private airports that don’t have direct ATC control anyway, so it’s unlikely that’s a significant contributor to a solution. Though I definitely agree it should be done at whatever scale it can be to improve general conditions.

    • flynnguy@programming.dev
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      21 hours ago

      I’d imagine a lot of private jets do fly IFR though which does involve ATC. So even if they fly out of a non towered airport, they probably file their IFR plan with a towered airport and start talking to them once in the air.

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      2 days ago

      Most of the airports that private jets fly in and out of do have a tower. Also, there’s a lot of ground holds recently due to en route controller shortages which limits how much traffic can be in the air, which of course affects private jets as well.

      • rarbg@lemmy.zip
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        Yeah but lots of those towered smaller airports are staffed by contractor companies where the controllers are still getting paid normally rn