Sometimes, especially late at night, why can I only hear the controller – and not the pilot?
At night, controllers work multiple frequencies at one time. For example, the radio that is monitoring the northeast arrival frequency 121.35 is only monitoring that frequency, and because we are only monitoring that one frequency, you won’t hear pilots talking to the controller on other frequencies. This occurs typically during overnight hours when controllers work multiple frequencies, but the controllers do make adjustments for traffic loads so it may happen during the day, although unlikely.
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