Hi all, A couple weeks ago I took a flight from Minneapolis St. Paul to Chicago O'Hare and listened in on the whole flight. It's because I took an United Airlines flight and they had ATC on one of their channels. It was great! Any way, when we pulled into O'Hare in the United alley, I heard a whole bunch of aircraft call up metering. For example, "Metering, United 792 at gate charlie 7 with november..." And then metering would say, "United 792, metering, monitor ground on 21.9 good day." Anyone know what metering actually does for the aircraft? I'm sure there is a simple answer, but I'd just like to know. Thanks in advance.Maul

Simply put metering just regulates the flow of aircraft off the gates so ground does not get too congested. Its like a heads up to the ground controller just in case. When metering is in effect its usually due to a heavy push time or weather problems on some of the departure routes. Im a pilot for Delta and some places, like Chicago, Boston, and sometimes Atlanta will implement this fairly often. In a few airports its standard procedure to do this prior to talking to ground for taxi.Hornit

Awesome, thanks for your answer. Great to know it came from a real world airline pilot!Maul

Thanks Hornit!You learn something new everyday around here. I'd of never had any idea otherwise.Cheers!HeatherWhen it absolutely, positively, has to be there overnight, I'll get it there the next day; but when you're #2, you try harder. ;)http://ftp.avsim.com/dcforum/User_files/3d18e8077527c2cb.jpg

They have ATC on one of their channels? I'm flying tommorow on United. What channel is it?

It's channel 9. They didn't plug it in on any of the (two) United flights I've been on though... :-(Martin767 fetishistIt's a lot like life and that's what's appealing