#Jim tillman weatherman chicago registration#

Why? Why was the plane that low? It seems no one picked up the phone and called ATA or the FAA.

Two minutes wasted without asking the main question. It made the news! They actually pulled him into the studio to explain what happened, as if it were a huge story! Like it doesn't happen daily somewhere! I remember one time during his NBC days, a news film crew caught a jet executing a go-around at O'Hare. In fact, he is now the weatherman at CBS and is older than dirt. In fact, he was at one time a weatherman for the NBC affiliate in Chicago. The 'analyst' Jim Tilmon used to be a 727 Captain for American. All I am saying is that you see 700 Ft at 6.5 out!!!! Oh my god!! Anyone that has done this approach can see this happening on a busy night. Maybe it was some new guy doing this for the first time, I don't know. Now I admit this aircraft was slightly low for the normal pattern, but at that point they were at LEVEL flight out there, they probably had other concerns like traffic they were following, wake and those pointy buildings over their right shoulders. Now that was my clearance just 10 minutes before the ATA aircraft went over US cellular. Tower wants you to turn at least a 4 mile final to get some departure traffic off of 22L. = 1320 Ft MSL on the altimeter.Д«efore you even break off 31C for the circle you need to be below 2000ft MSL, oh yeah and then you're number 3 for the airport behind a saab short final and another heavy 757 turning a two mile final. I don't mean to add fuel to the fire here, but anyone who has done the MDW 31C circle 22L visual approach into MDW can see this happening on a busy night. I am not sure what the winds were last night at MDW (it was afterall a night off) but to me this is much more plausible than some idiot sports announcer yacking away about nothing he knows! Also, during radar vectors the controller can take the aircraft as low as the minimum vectoring altitude, which in some cases is very low. The MSP to MDW flight is filed over the Motif arrival into Chicago which would take the flight over Joliet and then out to the east of MDW back into MDW. During off peak traffic hours (Saturday night for instance) ATC with give you vectors for a straight in visual to 22L. Why does the media continue to parade these putzes around for everyone to see? Here's AN explanation: at peak hours and for southwesterly winds, MDW will operate with an ILS to 31C circle to 22L.

#Jim tillman weatherman chicago registration#

Ask yourself this Ken? If you couldn't read the registration numbers on the aircraft (which are much bigger than a baseball jersey's numbers) what makes you think on passenger could read the players' numbers. Ken Harrelson has got to be a complete idiot.

Let's take a deep breath, relax, let the real pros do their thing and mull over their results when available.

The one thing we can agree on is that something was not right. We need to collectively realize, follow, and enforce that rule. The first rule of investigation is to not speculate. Some of those who posted earlier statements in this thread should be ashamed to call themselves aviation enthusiasts. Alternatively, if you remain high you can blow the approach and have to go-around certainly not the end of the world, but at an airport like MDW with an AAR of 32 aircraft/hour efficiency is key and second only to safety. If the aircraft in front of you circles too far out from the field (as is especially common with non- MDW hub-ing air carriers who aren't familiar with the 'rules of the road' at MDW), you can end up lower and further out than you would like to be. The aircraft was executing a visual maneuver on approach to MDW that can get unpredictable at times.