Good afternoon all. I am new to listening and was wondering if anyone can help me out. I live about 7 miles east of the BWZ Navaid in Long Valley, NJ. I was wondering what frequencies I can monitor in my area. I have MMU twr programmed in but was wondering about terminal control area frequencies and planes arriving at EWR/TEB. I checked the sectionals but I don’t know what to monitor going west to east (in my corridor) at my location.
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It is in the RR database. Over in Philly as ATC for what you are interested was relocated there. The Newark arrivals are split from general aviation (Satellite) using different frequencies in the list. Frequencies used are highly dependent on staffing, workload, flow and time of day.
You will need to listen to understand.
Also in the DB by County, such as Morris and Essex are the airports.
Lastly when EWR landing 4R aircraft over your area are often cleared Sweet, Gritty.
You will need to listen to understand.
Also in the DB by County, such as Morris and Essex are the airports.
Lastly when EWR landing 4R aircraft over your area are often cleared Sweet, Gritty.
Philadelphia TRACON (PHL) (Pennsylvania) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference
Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference for Philadelphia TRACON (PHL) (Pennsylvania)
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Hi- Just in case it helps, I thought I would call your attention to www.Flightaware.com. If, in the top search bar, you enter an airport identifier like KEWR for Newark, there are various tabs. If you select the one marked IFR PLATES, you will find charts showing the landmarks for various routes to the airports runways. STAR is Standard Arrival Procedure, and describes an approaching aircraft’s descent from cruising altitude (guessing 150 to 200 miles away) down to the point where they leave control of the Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC), and enter the territory covered by Approach Control (TRACON- Terminal Radar Approach Control). TRACON also handles departures until the aircraft reaches a location/altitude leaving its territory and is handed off to an ARTCC.
On the Philadelphia Approach Control Page, 119.2 is listed as the departure frequency, but as pointed out, depending on traffic load, any of the frequencies may be used for both departure and arrival, and may be used for any part(s) of the TRACON territory. For departing aircraft, once they have left the initial departure frequency, they may be heard on N90 TRACON New York TRACON (N90) (New York) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference (mostly the Liberty frequencies) before being handed off to ARTCC.
In my experience, aircraft approaching from the South are on Washington Center’s 125.45; From the West on New York' Center's 124.625 or 132.15; and from the North on Boston Center's 134.3. From those ARTCC frequencies they are handed off to Newark Approach Control. You can often find out what frequency approach control is using by listening to those ARTCC frequencies.
In addition to Flightaware, you might also check out Flightradar24 and LIVEATC. 73- Bill KB2QO
MiCon
Mike
I grew up in Bridgewater Twp in the 60's & 70's. Moved away, but visited often over the years and always brought my scanner. Aviation scanning has always been my interest.
Scanning can be boring, interesting, or exciting, it depends on what you put into it. I'm going to PM you in a few days with some starter frequencies for your area. In the meantime, since you're new to this, I'm going to offer a few suggestions.
Go to Google maps and enter 'airports' in the search line. Size the map for your area (northern NJ). You will see the location of pretty much every airport in that area. Make a list of them. Then go to AirNav.com. Look up each airport. You will get a list of the frequencies each airport uses: Clearance Delivery, ground, tower, approach & departure (TRACON), FBO's (airport services), and airport recordings (ATIS, AWOS).
Program all of the TRACON freqs into your scanner. You will hear the aircraft being handed off to other A/D sectors, towers, and ARTCC controllers (high altitude enroute sectors). By doing this you will soon acquire your own list of frequencies that you can hear in your area.
Something else interesting to do is look at Internet flight following sites (ADS-B, Flightradar24, etc.) as you listen to the aircraft. By doing this you can see where the aircraft you're listening to is, what direction it's traveling, and what it's altitude is. This will help you determine which frequencies you specifically want to monitor for your area.
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