Visited Seattle TRACON
I had an opportunity to tour the Seattle Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facilities today. There were controllers from many of the local facilites, Seattle Tower, Boeing Tower, Renton Tower, Seattle Center, and Whidbey Approach. They all spoke for a few minutes about their facility and took questions. We then got to tour the Seattle TRACON. They have a fairly new system called STARS. It’s a very cool radar system. It was definitely worthwhile to spend a few hours to see who and what is on the other side of the radio.
I wish I had pictures to show, but there was no picture taking allowed (at least not without special permission from the facility manager).