Originally Posted by
Tomcat
Funny thing going through training at NATCO... I asked the North Captain, "What's the big deal about the 500' call?" He asked me what I meant? Apparently, all of us South guys think it was a previous NWA callout, and all of the North guys think it was a South callout. Someone on the 4th floor has to be getting a laugh out of this.
fNWA call was 1000 ft, Instruments Normal. It was also where we were supposed to be "stabilized."
Story floating around about the 500 call is that
it was a required crossing altitude on an old arrival into ATL.
Heard that its an automated callout on DAL-S aircraft
Heard we are spending millions of dollars to get the DAL-N aircraft automated callout changed from 1000 to 500.