Happy mid-July, C Area!
First off, thank you for your timely responses to the T-shirt forms. Whether you decided to get one or not, I appreciate you taking the time to message me back and as a result, the C area was the first to get a response from all it’s members! I’m sure we’ll hear when the order is placed, but they won’t be waiting on us :)
A big congrats to Chase and Xylen for their recent certifications on R-side lows and D-side lows, respectively. Great job to their trainers and everyone who helped in their success. Well done, gentlemen!
I will be out of town and will have spotty reception at best from the 15th - 24th of July. Devin will be available if you are in need of anything during that time. Thank you, Devin!
The GEG LOA is still in the works. We are working on trying to get COE arrivals a lower altitude that we won’t have to coordinate. It was initially proposed that the W/E boundary lines for GEG would be what we would use, all arrivals to COE from the east and south that would be within those lines would get assigned a lower altitude. Another suggestion was to use the W/E boundary line that is on the north side of GEG’s airspace and S72 for the south side of the area that COE arrivals would get assigned lower. GEG assigns COE departures to 90 initially, so we had discussed descending them to 100. If you have any thoughts on this, please share with me, Jackie, or Darlington.
The new joint letter between us, ZLC and GEG MSO approach has been in effect for a little over a week now. If you’re having issues finding it, it’s not in the ZLC LOA on ERIDS. Look under Local Docs, Air Traffic, LOA’s, Centers, Joint. There you’ll find the ZLC ZSE GEG AIT which covers the new procedures. I want to know your thoughs on this, what is and isn’t working about it, any suggestions to make it better, etc. It would help if you include the times that the situation happened with AID’s so we have some data to back up the concern.
Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns, I’m happy to help any way I can.
Crumbley
360-635-8244