Controller describes common “squeeze play” operation at DCA airport #shorts

DCA's main runway, runway 1, is the busiest in the country with over 800 flights a day, roughly one every minute. To make it work, Hanoka says air traffic controllers often relied on what they called a squeeze play. >> A squeeze play is when everything is dependent on an aircraft rolling, an aircraft slowing, and you know, it's going to be a very close operation.>> So, they're really just one's going up and one's going in at the same time. And that is a really common operation. >> Two airplanes on one runwa ...