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Fox Xray · August 21st, 2006, 13:13

Things are so dynamic, especially vectoring to meet MIT requirements, it's hard to give a specific answer. You should not see a 90 degree vector, they happen, but not often, in that scenario I'm spinning you...

The way I would prefer is that you give me a heads up... like this:

ATC: N1234 turn 40 degrees right, vectors spacing.

N1234: 40 degrees right... and we're reducing to 250 kts.

If I need you to maintain present speed I'll either assign it or just tell you speed your discretion, or maybe just roger you. We develop a basic plan for situations, with ATC being dynamic the plan changes all the time, the more info we have, A/C is gonna slow down, speed up, etc. the better we can pre-plan our moves.

Hope that helps...

August 21st, 2006, 13:13	#2
Fox Xray ATC Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 426	Re: to slow, or not to slow... Things are so dynamic, especially vectoring to meet MIT requirements, it's hard to give a specific answer. You should not see a 90 degree vector, they happen, but not often, in that scenario I'm spinning you... The way I would prefer is that you give me a heads up... like this: ATC: N1234 turn 40 degrees right, vectors spacing. N1234: 40 degrees right... and we're reducing to 250 kts. If I need you to maintain present speed I'll either assign it or just tell you speed your discretion, or maybe just roger you. We develop a basic plan for situations, with ATC being dynamic the plan changes all the time, the more info we have, A/C is gonna slow down, speed up, etc. the better we can pre-plan our moves. Hope that helps...