Hi everyone,
Apparently P80 and our management have been discussing a change to the P80 LOA. I have a feeling that this request may have come from P80, but I'm not sure.
I will try to describe it as best I can and in turn, I would like to find out from all of you if this is something we want to pursue.
Scenario #1 - N123 is just east of SLE airport at FL060 northbound direct UBG VOR. The aircraft will clip the HOOD sector and then enter the Newberg sector. P80 does not want us to make a call to the HOOD sector for a point out because they have already done this internally. As long as the Newberg sector takes the hand-off prior to the HOOD sector needing a point out, no coordination would have to be done with the HOOD sector because it would be in the LOA. I believe it would also be the same as when you have an aircraft descending to FL060 northbound to UBG VOR that would not be level prior to HOOD sector needing a point out.
Scenario #2 - P80 hands off an aircraft to sector 6 out the LMT gate that would require P80 to give sector 5 a point out through the "pie area". They do not want to make the call to sector 5. They want sector 6 to put the aircraft on sector 5 and have sector 6 make the point out internally.
These are a few examples that I heard. I would like to hear from the B-Area any thoughts as to why you would agree or disagree to this. If you don't want to put down any reasons why, I would still like a YES or NO so that we can really see which way the area would be leaning towards.
Thanks for taking the time to read and I look forward to seeing what the B-Area thinks about this.
Rick Lund
B-Area Rep