It’s like I just sent out an email, but luckily for me that was last month, so I’m good!
I reached out to Spokane today to check in and give a heads up about some things that I’ve been noticing. One was an instance I had a couple times about a week ago where an aircraft off GEG during CARP was requesting FL220 but was climbing to FL230. I also have noticed that sometimes when they call us, they’re identifying themselves as “Spokane” and not including if it’s Yakima, Pasco or Missoula. The FacRep was very receptive to both and will reach out to the membership about these items to keep an eye out on them.
She brought up to me that they have been getting a lot of arrivals above 160 with no APREQs. She’s not asking for more calls, but this is a friendly reminder to do our best to follow the letter and get arrivals down. We are still negotiating our LOA with ZLC and I can try to bring up getting control for GEG arrivals, but I have also been noticing they are starting those aircraft down before they get to our boundary. There are those instances (especially with military arrivals during break ups and things like that) where it is hard to get an arrival down, but overall we can be more positive on providing GEG altitudes that conform more with the letter.
There was some discussion about Seattle Terminal Arrivals flying over YKM and whether or not there’s a requirement for them to be crossing YKM at FL240. Currently, the way it reads it does not appear that that is required, but I have asked the A & C area airspace reps to review this and perhaps write it in a way that is not ambiguous or left up to interpretation.
Please let me know if you have any questions about any of this. I will keep you posted as things come up.
Have a great rest of your week!
Crumbley
360-635-8244