YVR reroutes
Recently, Canada’s traffic management has been requesting — and the command center has been approving — CYVR, CYYJ, CYXX, and CYCD arrivals being rerouted out of their airspace and into ours because of their staffing.
If you’ve worked when this happens, you know how much of a pain it is. Sector 12 can become a DYSIM problem.
Nav Canada will be requesting these routes intermittently over the rest of the summer. With that in mind, I participated in a meeting last week with various parties to discuss mitigation strategies for these reroutes.
The Canadian TMU representative said that he anticipates there being a lot fewer planes rerouted into our airspace when these reroutes happen in the future (he claimed the volume would be approximately 50% of what it has been). But even 50% feels like it would have an enormous impact on our operations. Resultantly I’ll be continuing to explore options with TMU and the C area to deconflict our normal sector 12 airplanes with these other ones, assuming that the Command Center continues to approve the reroutes.
If you work a Sector 12 session with these reroutes and feel like it was difficult to manage, please let me know so that I can forward that data to TMU.
2024 schedule negotiations
Damien and I will be sitting down with management in the not-too-distant future to negotiate our 2024 BWS schedule. If you have suggestions or proposed changes to our schedule, please forward them to me or Damien.
Area refresher
Our A area refresher will be held Nov. 13-17, and we need volunteers to help teach it. You’d be given time off the floor to prepare the PowerPoint presentation, as well as to help develop the DYSIM problem in collaboration with our SGET SME, Mr. Matthew Simpson.
Please advise me if you’re interested.
IST cadre volunteers
ZSE is soliciting volunteers facility-wide to help with the next round of IST training. As with other recent rounds of IST, I have again advised management that I don’t believe we should be forced into providing volunteers from the A area, considering how dire our staffing is.
That being said, if someone is interested in volunteering, management will try to accommodate the request.
The cadre training will be held Sept. 12-13 or Sept. 14-15 (you get to pick which two-day block you’d want to attend). Let me know if you’re interested in volunteering.
Certifications
Congrats to Jared Fenton for becoming ZSE’s newest CPC! I’m excited to have him complete the training program and become one of us.
And congrats to Tucker Enzien for getting certified on D1/31.
In solidarity,
Dan Rasmussen
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