A Note on Listening to Tokyo International Airport (Haneda) Air Traffic Control (ATC)

Organization of Frequencies and Active Frequencies by Wind Direction at Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport).

Writing a note about listening to Haneda Airport Air Traffic Control ATC. Perhaps this article basically has no reference value for friends who don’t live in the Tokyo area, However, I also want to share my experience listening to ATC with everyone through this article, hoping it will be helpful to everyone.

When listening to Haneda Airport ATC myself, because there are so many frequencies, And when flights are busy, there are so many radio calls, and the calls for takeoff and landing are mixed together, I always feel that I cannot sort them out well. So I did it myself, found some information from the Japanese government website, And made it into an Excel sheet, which makes looking things up much more comfortable.

Also, to make better use of the auto-scan function of my IC-R6 wireless receiver, According to different wind directions, I divided the Departure and Arrival frequencies into several groups, This way, when scanning and querying, I can follow my own needs, For example, if I only want to listen to the ATC for Runway 34L landings, then I just need to scan a specific group.

The image below is divided into two tables. The top one shows the frequency of each control unit based on Runway. We can see that Haneda’s 4 Runways each have their own separate Ground and Tower frequencies, which is quite luxurious. The table below divides the active runways into several categories based on wind direction and weather conditions, To facilitate searching when listening.

For example, when the wind is from the north, generally Runway 05 and 34R are used for takeoff, and Runway 34L is used for landing. Flights on Runway 05 are generally headed towards the west and south, such as Osaka and Okinawa, While flights on Runway 34R are generally headed north, mostly to Hokkaido. Then, sequentially letting the wireless receiver automatically high-speed scan Ground, Tower, Departure or Approach, Center, Basically, you can lock onto all the calls that can be heard for a certain flight by Runway.

Below is a screenshot of the Japanese government data I referred to, The original address is at http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/000126964.pdf

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