Quick post, because two emergency flights from North FL are finally able to get through today.
A bit on what we do:
The Atlanta Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC, we call it 'arr-tick') used to control all the aircraft going into, out of, and through a big chunk of the southeast, including all of Georgia. Since it all fed to Hartsifeld in Atlanta, it meant that this facility was also one of the busiest centers in the US. It's a big building with all sorts of equipment.
There's a generator, thankfully, that we use to power the largest transmitter and connections to some remote beacons. There's a bit left over, which we also use for some form of communications with the west. I am running this computer with the same excess. Why waste it?
All in all, this building's job hasn't changed. We use it to handle the relief airlifts that come from God-knows-where to the west, maybe Scott AFB, but that's awful close to St Louis...?
The weather is playing havoc on our mission. We really hope it clears up by the Thursday rush. There's a lot of people that depend on the weekly airlifts from the safe zones in the west.
There isn't anything operating east of the Mississippi to give us weather info, and any of us here would kill for a working weather app right about now. The best we have is a few retired pilots with CB radios scatted around giving us daily reports but it isn't enough.
If any of you somehow power up a NWS remote weather station or magically get your hands on a Doppler radar, let me know,
I'll be back on if/when the weather clears up. Obviously we only power up when there are planes to direct, to save fuel.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
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I just realized this thing had the ability to share comments on other updates. I didn't realize people had read and responded to what I've been posting. I'll keep up. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteUh, North FL QZ doesn't have any Birds to fly yet. We haven't been able to put them back together. I don't know what flew in yesterday, but they weren't us. We are still trying to piece together the ones we have. Should be sky worthy in about a month or two. We aren't worried about fuel, but our Birds took a lot of damage during the incident and some were flown off by chicken shits out save their own asses. The Auggie QZ doesn't have any birds either, they are at the old Fort, the Castillo de San Marco. There is no landing space. Be fucking careful.
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