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What a shift at St. Louis looks like.

KSTL gameplay: pick an aircraft off the scope, send the clearance, and the pilot reads it back before the traffic moves.
Kansas City Center · ZKC 33 of 33 airports
KSTL St. Louis

St. Louis Lambert Intl: the template field, three parallels over the Mississippi. A steady shift to learn the board. Steady tier.

St. Louis metro KSUS St. Louis

Spirit of St. Louis: St. Louis' business-aviation front door. Fractional jets, trainers, and transient GA share two close parallels beneath the Bravo. Busy tier.

KALN Alton / St. Louis

St. Louis Regional: the metro's northeast corporate reliever. West Star maintenance jets and local GA share two long crossing runways beside the Mississippi. Steady tier.

KBLV Belleville / Mascoutah

Scott AFB / MidAmerica St. Louis: an Air Force mobility base and a civil terminal on one airfield. Tankers and transports share two far-spaced parallels with Allegiant, and now and then everything waits on a VIP movement. Busy tier.

KCPS St. Louis

St. Louis Downtown: the Mississippi-side business and training reliever. Corporate arrivals and a deep GA pattern share two close parallels and a short crosswind beneath the Bravo. Busy tier.

KMCI Kansas City

Kansas City Intl: a Southwest focus city on the Missouri River bluffs. Two long parallels and a crosswind, with the Center's own metro traffic. Busy tier.

KICT Wichita

Wichita Eisenhower National: the Air Capital's Class C approach seat. Regional airline banks over a heavy Textron and Spirit factory bizjet base, with two parallels and a crosswind. Steady tier.

KTUL Tulsa

Tulsa International: Green Country's Class C approach seat and American's world maintenance base. American-led regional banks over a corporate bizjet base, two parallels plus a crosswind, and the one published Tulsa arrival. Steady tier.

KSGF Springfield

Springfield-Branson National: two equally busy runways cross at the Ozarks' regional gateway. Airline and cargo jets share the Class C with a deep GA and training stream. Steady tier.

KJLN Joplin

Joplin Regional: SkyWest regional jets cross a GA-majority tower, with two equal-length crossing runways and no published route structure. Steady tier.

KBBG Branson

Branson: one precision runway cut into the Ozark hills, with resort-bound business traffic and GA but no current scheduled airline service. Steady tier.

KBMI Bloomington-Normal

Central Illinois Regional: regional jets, Allegiant leisure flights, FedEx cargo, and prairie GA share two crossing runways at Bloomington-Normal. Steady tier.

KPIA Peoria

General Downing - Peoria International: Central Illinois' crossing-runway mix of regional jets, Allegiant, UPS, daily Guard Hercules traffic, and flight-school GA. Busy tier.

KTBN Fort Leonard Wood

Waynesville-St. Robert Regional / Forney Field: Contour regional jets and Army traffic share one precision runway on the Fort Leonard Wood installation. Steady tier.

KSTJ St. Joseph

Rosecrans Memorial: a Missouri River Guard field where Hercules tactical training and municipal GA share a long primary and a short assault-strip crosswind. Busy tier.

KFOE Topeka

Topeka Regional: Forbes Field's 12,800-foot primary carries Guard tankers and transient military traffic over a mixed civil and GA operation. Busy tier.

KSLN Salina

Salina Regional: daily regional jets share a former Air Force runway complex with military transients, corporate traffic and a deep university training pattern. Busy tier.

KTOP Topeka

Philip Billard Municipal: Topeka's close-in municipal tower, where corporate arrivals and a deep GA pattern share two short crossing runways beside the Kansas River. Steady tier.

KMHK Manhattan

Manhattan Regional: daily American regional jets to Dallas and Chicago share a Kansas River tower with Fort Riley-adjacent GA and a short crosswind. Steady tier.

KHUT Hutchinson

Hutchinson Regional: three crossing runways and a GA-heavy corporate board beside the Arkansas River, with Wichita Approach working the outside airspace. Steady tier.

KGCK Garden City

Garden City Regional: two daily American departures share two crossing runways with western Kansas GA, corporate, cargo and military traffic. Steady tier.

KBEC Wichita

Beech Factory: Beechcraft factory flying, corporate jets and extensive training share one long runway beneath Wichita Approach. Steady tier.

KRVS Tulsa

Tulsa Riverside: Tulsa's busy GA reliever, with trainers and corporate jets working close parallels and a short crosswind runway. Busy tier.

KSWO Stillwater

Stillwater Regional: Oklahoma State training traffic and regional airline service share a long ILS runway with a crossing strip. Steady tier.

KWDG Enid

Enid Woodring Regional: Vance military training dominates a long ILS runway, with civil GA and a short crosswind strip underneath. Busy tier.

KMDH Carbondale / Murphysboro

Southern Illinois: Southern Illinois' high-training tower. Student pattern work and business GA share three intersecting runways beside the Mississippi corridor. Steady tier.

KMWA Marion

Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois: Southern Illinois' commercial gateway. Contour regional jets to Chicago share crossing runways with local and business GA. Steady tier.

Kansas City metro KMKC Kansas City

Kansas City Downtown: downtown Kansas City's bizjet front door, on a peninsula inside a Missouri River bend. Fractional jets and GA share crossing runways under the metro's satellite arrivals. Steady tier.

KOJC Olathe

Johnson County Executive: the metro's training strip, a single 4,097 ft runway on the Johnson County upland. Pattern work all day with a light-jet sliver, the gentlest seat in the KC trio. Steady tier.

KIXD Gardner

New Century AirCenter: the old Olathe naval air station, now the metro's southwest reliever. Training and transient GA on the crossing runways, bizjets on the 7,339 ft strip. Steady tier.

KCOU Columbia

Columbia Regional: mid-Missouri contract tower. GA majority with a few daily regional jets to sequence in. Steady tier.

KJEF Jefferson City

Jefferson City Memorial: a contract tower on the Missouri River. GA, bizjets, and a busy pattern; the runway is always yours. Steady tier.

KSPI Springfield

Abraham Lincoln Capital: central-Illinois level-4 tower. Eagle RJs, Allegiant and Breeze over a prairie of GA and pattern traffic. Steady tier.

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From small towered fields like Jefferson City and the Kansas City metro satellites up to hubs like St. Louis, Atlanta, Chicago, and Denver. Runways, waypoints, and procedures come out of published FAA data and onto a live radar scope.

A frequency that talks

Every instruction gets a pilot readback, and the frequency chatters with check-ins and traffic, voiced right in your browser.

Real procedure

Runway flows, wake-turbulence separation, handoffs, and in-flight emergencies: the same rules a real approach controller works.

Forty airports live, Center brick by Center brick: 33 of Kansas City Center's 33, plus Louisville, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Portland, and Las Vegas. More on the way.

The KSTL approach radar scope: seven aircraft on the arrival flow, each with a callsign, altitude, and speed data block, laid over the real runway layout, range rings, and the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
KSTL runways, fixes, and the two rivers, out of published FAA data.
The same scope with the radio exchange showing: green controller instructions and lavender pilot readbacks stacked bottom-left, a pilot reading a heading and altitude back to the controller.
Green is what you said. Lavender is what the pilot read back.
The scope during an in-flight emergency: one aircraft squawking 7700 with an EMERG data block near the field, the rest of the arrival flow still to be worked around it.
Then a strip goes 7700, and the plan is yours to rebuild.

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