Over the past few months, there have been multiple instances of A area controllers manually turning off Olympic/W237 airspace. This has the unintended consequence of deleting any subsequent scheduled airspace activations for whatever airspace gets turned off.
I believe this is happening after Downrigger calls Sector 3 to advise that they’re done with the Forks Corridor and the associated airspace.
When we get this call, it is our job to manually turn off the Forks Corridor (via the “Airspace status” button in the EDST and not the display setting on the radar scope). If you want to show Olympic/W237 airspace as cold, call the TMU mission coordinator and have them turn it off.
Our job is the Forks Corridor and theirs is the airspace. (If you’re wondering why, TMU did not want to be involved in the Forks Corridor being depicted as airspace on the scope, and we said, “OK fine, we’ll turn it on and off ourselves.”)
The airspace and procedures office will be sending out an update about this in the near future, but I wanted to send out a reminder in the meantime. Please let me or Mathew Coughlin, our trusty airspace rep, know if you have any questions.
In solidarity,
Dan Rasmussen
801-860-3821