20% each on my first two. Pretty sure I got crushed by thunderstorms for two weeks straight, but it really improved my working speed. I had a really high volume day yesterday with spacing to all the East Coast stuff plus a holding stack for CLT and was able to keep up fairly well.
Are we doing this DFW spacing for your area? We have a constant 15 MIT on the board and they go through at least two more Indy sectors before Memphis gets them, so the CPCs I work with stay salty over that.
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The past couple of weeks have been super busy for us too. Tons of WX last week and just busy volume this week. My trainee is a little ahead of you. We just got to minimum hours on his 3rd/4th r-sides.
Yes and no on the DFW. We don’t do any DFW spacing in my area or the area to the west of us. We’re the two busiest areas and have lots of other spacing to do, so we don’t really get asked to do DFW stuff. So ZID gets a pass-back to essentially space for the two areas on the western part of ZME. It’s all a bit ridiculous for several reasons. First, DFW is almost 700 miles away from my airspace. Also the area with I84/94 does all of this spacing but they’ll assign the 2nd guy in line something like .74- and just leave it there. So of course the 3rd to 10th guys in line are all going to catch him, essentially negating all of the work they did to get the in-trail. We get pass backs for all the DC and NYC airports daily and it feels a little ridiculous to do that so far away as well.
We get 3-5 lines going into ATL to blend and usually don’t have a pass-back unless there’s 20+ in trail for ZTL. We’re something like 200 miles away from ATL and our sectors are designed to have room to accomplish that spacing. So part of me thinks why can’t that be the norm for other major airports. On the other hand sometimes when I quick look DFW it can be a bit crazy how many aircraft AAL schedules to get there all at the same time. So folks probably need all the help they can get.
I fix at a minimum a dozen times each day people that are direct to GVE because we know ZDC gives you all a hard time with that. The one you miss each week out of 60 though they call and give you crap. So that gets pretty old, especially with all of the ridiculous routes we give to CVG and all of its satellites. So in regards to BOS what fix are they supposed to be over? I’m blanking if they normally go over BKW or not. I feel like they usually don’t.
Happy to hear you’re working as a r-side finally.