Author Topic: Frequency linking/splitting  (Read 4413 times)

Offline Jonathan_tcu

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Frequency linking/splitting
« on: November 24, 2005, 07:01:45 AM »
As you all know, where I am from, the adjacent sectors  south of us (135.5 and 127.25) split away from our 128.3 and 133.72 from 7:30 am to 8pm (1230z to 0100z)  However, if the traffic very quiet on both sides, particulary during heavy IFR weather days, would the practice of keeping both sides split until off peak periods be the norm?  I just find the airspace here gets so quiet and nothing goes on for about an hour.   :?:



Offline binky

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Frequency linking/splitting
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2005, 10:34:54 AM »
I would guess it depends on staffing, procedures, and most importantly.. who the shift manager and specialty supervisors are and if they are present.  Safety has to be maintained by why have two people stare at empty airspace with no estimates?

Offline Jonathan_tcu

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« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2005, 10:40:10 AM »
Your question is as good as mine.  I state this because there have been a few days this year where the freq's and sectors were combined until 10 am or 2 pm, almost like the Peterborough and East Radar sectors splitting from Simco sector with Toronto, but all 7 days a week.  Here, Saturdays are quietest.  Sundays CAN be just as busy as a weekday, only for a few hours in the afternoon between 3 and 6.  When I used to listen to the North Bay sector while living in North Bay, there used to be some dead periods for a half hour at a time.  During that time, I assumed that maybe the same controller worked 2 diff. airspaces.  I know THAT's not true, because at one time, a pilot asked the controller for Timmins if a plane landed at Sudbury, where the Sudbury controller heard that and she yelled a mere 15 feet away and said "Tell him 5 minutes ago!"  That and sometimes the neighouring controller doesn't answer right away and the Timmins sector guy hotlines the Sudbury sector to um... 'wake him up' lol.  It's just bizzare not hearing anything in one sector for a long period of time if there are let's say 2 or 3 aircraft per hour.