Thursday, February 21, 2008

Day 9 of RTF (last day of classroom work!)

Today we spent the entire day running part-task scenarios. It really made the day pass quickly and it was a lot of fun. We ran seven different scenarios lasting about 40 minutes each. There were ghost pilots for all of us this time, so we all worked as controllers the entire day. We had use of the ACD lab after lunch time, so we alternated out half in the lab and half in the classroom so that we could use that.

The scenarios alternated between working as north or south controller and they were all pretty similar. Working the north scenarios there were arrivals and departures into and off of Academy, Bartles, and James, along with some overflights and VFR pop-ups thrown in. The south scenarios were similar with some overflights, and had arrivals and departures into and off of Academy and Jeske. I think all of us did pretty well and by the end of the day we had the procedures and phraseology down for the most part.

Tomorrow we start in the ACD labs full time. Only 9 days left of class!

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