Hey there C Area!
I hope everyone had a great New Years - a fresh start to a new year full of opportunity, change, and volunteer opportunities!
SGET - We can still use a volunteer to go to Oklahoma City for training to be the C Area SGET person. There are a lot of scenarios that need updating for our area use.
TEAM - I don’t have a date for this, but we can use a TEAM Cadre. This is the program that we’ll use for filling out training forms and keeping track of training (to the best of my knowledge, I don’t know a lot about it other than it’s super helpful).
OJTI/CIC - There is an OJTI course and a CIC course coming up soon. If you haven’t been, don’t be surprised if you get to go!
IST - IST Cadre class is 3/14-15 or 3/16-17. We can usually use 2 cadres for this.
If you would like to volunteer, please let me or your Sup know by 1/15.
I know this is a lot to ask, and that there is a lot going on in general right now. Know that I don’t take your offers of your time lightly, and appreciate all you who are willing to step up and help. Our area is going to be pretty short this year, especially over the summer, and it’s going to take all of us working together to keep each other’s spirits up. Shift balancing is a bit of a necessary evil, unfortunately, but know that it IS tracked, and every effort is made to minimize the impact to your schedule and distribute the changes as evenly as possible. I know sometimes it doesn’t feel like this, so please have patience and understanding when your schedule doesn’t look like you had planned.
On another note, I will be out of the country and unavailable beginning the evening of Thursday 1/12 - the evening of Tuesday 1/17. Devin Carlisto will be available if you need anything while I’m gone or have any questions.
*I just got word, as of 1/27, COP will pretty much be done. They’re going to be asking for “medical proof” that you contracted COVID at work to approve COP.
There was talk spurred by the latest round of IST to get TMU to show the total delay of metered aircraft to the C Area. This wouldn’t mean that we would be required to eat the total delay, but we would set up an amount of time to give to the A Area. The idea of using this process and incorporating ZLC into setting up a reasonable amount of a delay for us has been brought up, but not discussed out of our area just yet. I would love your thoughts on this, please feel free to email them to me so I can keep them all together. The idea of a CWG that would work with TMU on how to help us when we go red is still smoldering, but with all the other things going on, it’s smoldering on a back burner. I will let you know when it is gaining ground, and would love someone to step forward to be a part of that.
As always, I appreciate everything you do to make our area super. Have a great rest of your week, and know that I’m available if you need anything. Or you can just add it to my list on the white board. Whoever suggested “remove this board” - thanks for the easy out! :)
Take care,
Crumbley
360-635-8244 (Unless it’s 1/12-1/17 = Carlisto)