All,

Hopefully everyone is having a solid week/weekend.  I have National Constitution Committee meetings Monday and Tuesday in Seattle but I am, as always, available if you need me.  Also, I am stepping outside of my comfort zone a little with the email formatting so forgive me if it looks like shit.

 

 

LOCAL MEETING

I am sure you have all seen the flyers but don’t forget to mark your calendars for the upcoming local meeting.

Thursday, June 13th at 2:30pm

Rainbow Cafe in Auburn

112 E Main Street

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From Garret — The WADS Bigfoot shout line we had for years, IA-143, was disconnected by the military a few weeks ago.  It was considered redundant because ZSE also has the IA-145 line for WADS.  The A and B areas already have that line mapped to their VSCS pages, but for some reason the D area doesn't.  Ray LaRoche (the ZSE VSCS Specialist) will soon add the IA-145 line to our VSCS pages and place them in the same place that the old IA-143 line used to be. 

In the meantime, if you need to reach Bigfoot, you have the following options:

  • On sector there are two phone numbers listed as well as two speed dial options on the D AREA INTERPHONE NUMBERS quick reference sheet.

  • The IA-156 (WADS Tinker)

  • Have the OM call or get you a number to call.

MFR Tower

The other night Cascade MFR went home but MFR tower stayed open.  This is not a normal operation and we are working on a contingency plan rewrite to make sure things go smoothly when this happens.  Until we get that done, if you find yourself working with Cascade Medford gone and tower still there, I would remind them to make sure they pass down times of all aircraft.  I would also verify the departure procedure and frequency that you want the aircraft on.

Overhead Maps/Memory Aids

I’ve been approached by several people about this issue so I think it’s time to address it.  It’s been quite some time since we have updated the positioning of our overhead maps and the bay headers with holding instructions on them in the area.  In the past, we had the sectional with the MIA altitudes above the low altitude R sides because it wasn't available on the scopes. Now that it is, it would be more helpful/relevant to swap positions with the low altitude sectional maps.  As for the airport bay headers, those could be simplified.  Probably by removing the initial approach altitude and holding info that may no longer be accurate.  Those approaches get tweaked so often that I believe most people would not trust that info anyway. If you have input on how that should look, please let me know ASAP.  Otherwise I will just ask around a little and change it to whatever matches the input received.

OT Notifications

In the past there has been a sheet posted with all of the overtimes that were assigned in a pay period.  That is no longer the case.  Vaden has been putting notifications in CEDAR of when you are assigned OT (as well as putting it on the schedule, obviously).  These notifications are easy to miss if you don’t know where to look.  I have attached a screenshot to show you what to look for.  You can also receive these through email notification (to your personal email) if you have those turned on in CEDAR.  I attached a screen grab of how to do that as well.

That’s it for now.  As always, let me know if you have any issues.

In Solidarity,


Drew