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How do controllers coordinate clearances through sectors?
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
ups.com... [snip] Very interesting. So what is the basis on which a controller accepts or denies a request for a more direct route? Is it just avoiding conflicts in his own airspace? When a controller issues an updated clearance that substantially changes the routing is he just ensuring there are no conflict in his own area??? 1) Pretty much. Add in a bit of making life easier (for either himself, the next controller, the aircraft, or some combination of the three - in that order) and the experience based knowledge of what the next sector is likely to want or accept. 2) He's *always* ensuring there are no conflicts (or at least none that turn into "deals") in his airspace. Everything else is secondary. If it's a major re-route that involves happenings far down the road it's likely it came out of the ARTCC computer. The reasons behind that are many and complex. All the controller knows for sure (or cares about) is to issue it as written and get the aircraft to the (new?) fix at the boundary of his airspace where he can handoff. Major re-routes involving multiple airway or fix changes that remain within a single sector would normally violate 1) above so I never saw much of that. At least not at the terminal level. Generally speaking controllers are fairly autonomous and insular. Within the constraints of the local LOAs and SOPs they can do whatever they want within their own airspace. Their prime concern is what's going on in their airspace right now. At the operational level they don't normally know or care what's going on in someone else's airspace (so long as it doesn't affect their ops with bad or refused handoffs, excess coordination, a flood of poorly spaced inbounds, etc). The object of the exercise is to take the aircraft, do whatever needs doing with it, get rid of it, take the next one, do what needs doing, get rid of that one, take the next one, lather, rinse, repeat until relief plugs in and says "I've got it." |
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