I was a controller there from May 94-Sept 14, when I retired. Best job ever!

Was a controller here, worked mostly LAX Arrivals; now retired. I set up the Operation Raincheck at SCT, back in the day. Loved the job!

great job, I've done that tour, they used to call it "operation rain check". It was great to plug in and sit next to the controllers working the sectors I flew and see the faces of the familiar voices I always talked to. Every pilot should do this. We've had them come up and talk with our flying club too.

This video is so underrated

@wolficorn, I have been the NATCA pilot/controller liaison for Potomac TRACON for the last two years. I’ve given countless tours for local pilots. Jason did an excellent job in this video. I would be interested in making a connection with him. Just to talk ATC and maybe expand our outreach initiatives. Maybe even present something to NATCA national. Either way, great video!!

I've spent some time in that room. Brings back memories.

Yes! I have been waiting for a video like this for a long time. Great video, great info. Thanks for sharing. 👊👊👊

Great video! Loved the tour and seeing how the screens look and really good questions too. Interesting how they mark a declared emergency with all the options they have on screen. I loved the Oshkosh series as well. Hope you keep up the content.

You make the best videos, great stuff, thanks!

Great video, thanks for bringing us along on the tour! Those folks in ATC are great around here in the Salt Lake area as well, professional and helpful. Really enjoying your channel.

@Wolficorn Great video! I remember seeing that TRACON bldg under construction while staying at the nearby Holiday Inn for business years ago. Not sure if the Holiday Inn is still there or not. One cool benefit of staying at the HI was watching the F14’s and, later, the F18’s launching from/RTB Miramar! Stay safe. 🛫🛬📡

Thanks for posting. I was fortunate to be able to attend a pilot open house at the DC TRACON several years ago. It was a really meaningful experience. BTW, I'll bet the screens there are a lot less busy during this virus mess, even for busy airspace around SOCAL.

Thank you for this video.

Cool Video. I pass by that facility every-time I take the Kearney Mesa Rd exit.

Really fascinating.

Highly educational- I didn’t know they could show freeways on their screen. Thank you

Great video!

Great Video. I am sure a lot of work went into making this and I appreciate the efforts. I work on the communications ATC equipment at SCT and wish I knew you were coming. I could have shown you the equipment room, radios and the voice switch. Next time!

I love you all guys have a safe flight central out

I see you have a Camera on the wing Beautiful Plane Very cool job those guys have to guild the Planes & Jets around.

Norcal TRACON did a presentation at the Oakland airport about a month ago... very informative. I plan to visit their building in Rancho Cordova in the next month or so - 3rd busiest TRACON in the country.

“Don’t fly through approach and departure courses” is perhaps the most important ATC advice in this video for pilots. On the face of it, super simple concept, and how could any pilot have a problem with this, right? Now overlay the SoCal airport departures and arrivals and notice how the Riverside 27 departure puts you into the middle of the Chino 26 approaches (unless you turn early). This unfortunately happened to this poor NorCal pilot during the spring of 2020 and I feel bad about not mitigating the conflict ahead of time, but the TAC chart is quite busy in SoCal. A tip for aspiring / low-time pilots, sometimes things get stressful at the TRACON and you might get a controller who decides to ‘advise you’ of what you’re doing wrong, on frequency. Keep you wits about you and keep flying the airplane. I had done everything I could planning for the RIV to VNY flight, including switching from tower to departure quickly to get flight following, but at the time the TRACONs were being downsized due to Covid, and certain controllers were clearly overworked. We’re all human, so I didn’t take it personally, but if any controllers are reading this, please know sometimes what may look like a boneheaded move may simply be an accidental stepping on the radios a split second too soon, or after a lot of planning a misunderstanding of what it going on in a given unfamiliar airspace. Best course of action is to vector us VFR guys in the direction of where you want us to be without venting. If you have time to ask if we’re local or transient and then want to pass on advice, that’s great, but remember things get busy in the single-pilot cockpits too.

I stay here in the Inland Empire (Riverside), I'm getting into aviation and always wondered what the heck was this "Socal" place. lol I'll be contacting them soon for a tour.

great video, thanks. glad to know they would rather talk to me than not talk to me. Also confirmed my thoughts that they will not be using the $4000 ADS B feature the FAA made me buy.

I used to fly out of Montgomery Field when I lived in San Diego. You should have had lunch at the greatest Mexican Restaurant in the area. "Casa Machado". It's right atop the Terminal Building for Montgomery Field at 3750 John J. Montgomery Dr. Mexican Food at it's finest and great aviation décor as well as good view of the ramp and runways. On the North side of the field, just north of the numbers on Runway 23 is the 94th Aero Squadron Restaurant. 8885 Balboa Ave. It too has an aviation theme and a view of the field. A bit more pricey but also good food. Check it out next time you get to San Diego's Montgomery Field.

Thanks for that great video ! I’m air traffic controller at Paris CDG and should be in San Diego in August 2020. I plan to rent an aircraft at KMYF for a 2 week x-country as I did last year from KLGB. It would be fantastic for me to have a visit of SoCal Tracon to meet American ATC. So if you have any contact to share with me , it would be great !

I would love to get in contact with any ATC's you know, thank you so much!

Srsly WTF ????!!!!! only 10K views and 350!!! likes??????? I would like to give this video and all the efforts gone to make it a hundred million likes ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Great video! I fly to KLAX frequently and I want to meet the TRACON, how can I do that?

I like all your clip. I am the owner of a Grumman Tiger at SMO. I would like to meet you one day. Whenever near the Santa Monica airport let me know please.

@wolficorn Hi, I am learning to fly at WHP, and I would love to visit the SoCal TRACON; I can not find a way to schedule a visit. Would you happen to have any information? Thank you!

One takeaway is how crude and old tech they are still are. Their displays look like old green-screens before graphical screens came out for computing. Their emphasis is still on VORs, airways, text tickers (laying on a desk!) and non-graphical symbols and lines.

I’m out of F70 and would like to take the tour

I can't make out where you took off from

Can you please help me get in touch to do something like this?

CTI=Collegiate Training Initiative CTI=/= Controller Training Initiative that is all.

ADSB = Government Boondoggle.