dsee8driver
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LOL ! Good point... It's an equipment thing. When a controller is speaking on a landline we here the landline in the headset and all other coms are redirected over a speaker. The speaker volume is very often set low as not to disrupt the sector sitting next to us. When you here that happen the radar controller is most likley working solo (no radar associate) so the workload is a bit increased, especially the coms part. The RA will generally handle all landline info... unless they are very busy where both the R and RA are on landlines. (that's a good indication that the sector is down the crapper )
Thanks ATCer...next time I'll know. Always wondered about that. Out of curiosity, what does a Radar Associate do? Is it like an extra pair of eyes over you? Sometimes when it's really busy you hear a different voice over the frequency usually gives just one instruction to an aircraft. Is that the RA guy looking over shoulder?