DFW | March 2010 | Overheard

I was out at Founders' Plaza recently (and I should point out the sun canopies are back up, hooray) and overhead the following on the West Approach frequencies:

Approach: American 2436, maintain your current heading and speed but I'll have you turn south of NETEE over the lake for visual approach to One-Eight Right for noise abatement.
American 2436: Current heading and speed, turn south of NETEE and we'll wake up the fish, American 2436.
Approach: (chuckle) After doing that, contact Tower 124.15........

In an ILS approach, most of the flights bound for 18R turn onto the glideslope north of NETEE- I live in Flower Mound on the north side of Grapevine Lake and see them all the time turning from base to final. On bad weather days/IMC, they'll often intercept the glideslope much further north, sometimes as far north as YOHAN just south of Lake Lewisville.