Danny Deger wrote:
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You my be getting the flight loop confused with the air-to-ground loop. The
flight loop is the loop everyone talks to the flight director on. I have
never heard it on a shuttle launch. I would think it would be fairly busy
during a space walk. Even on a boring ISS flight there is a lot of
coordination of routine plans on the flight loop. If nothing else just
administrative stuff on people coming and leaving the MCC.

Looks like CapCom did a lot of arm waving during the last space walk,
to get responses from somewhere to his left. That is a seperate
"channel" from the flight loop, too. ;-}

/dps