Dan Everette Posted July 12, 2006 at 09:27 PM Posted July 12, 2006 at 09:27 PM Greetings, I’d like to take this opportunity to announce a few new things that are going on at vZBW (Boston ARTCC). - Boston has transitioned from a mailing list to a forum based system for communication. The new forums are accessible from the main page of our website: (http://www.bostonartcc.net). Feel free to stop by for a visit and don’t forget a CYA! Or a MOCHA HAGoTDI! - The Boston feedback system has been overhauled from an e-mail submission to an easier to use form based system, also accessible from the main page. - For those pilots that frequent the northeast, you may have noticed an increase in our staffing (specifically our Cl[Mod - Happy Thoughts] C facilities). ZBW possesses some fun, and challenging to fly at times, Cl[Mod - Happy Thoughts] C’s. Whether it is typical New England fog out on the Cape, the Berkshire Mountains near Albany or Block Island Sound and Narragansett Bay in Providence. Our students/controllers are encouraged to staff these facilities, so come explore some more of ZBW other than just Beantown. - The Boston Tea Party This is obviously the most immediate thing in Boston right now. The fact that this is a huge deal within ZBW is readily apparent to whoever reads these forums, however I’ll attempt to quickly explain why this is a big deal to us at ZBW. First, my events staff has spent hundreds of hours working on this, and has been in the planning since February. We currently have 21 controllers who will showing up in Burlington, MA this Saturday to actively control. 3 will be controlling from home, and these numbers do not account for other Boston controllers who can’t commit to the entire time, but can plug in from home for a short bit. Boston controllers are coming from as far away as Ireland, visiting controllers from as far away as Atlanta, and even a couple pilots to fly “on-site†-Dan Everette CFI, CFII, MEI Having the runway in sight just at TDZE + 100 is like Mom, Warm cookies and milk, and Christmas morning, all wrapped into one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicholas Bartolotta 912967 Posted July 12, 2006 at 09:36 PM Posted July 12, 2006 at 09:36 PM - For those pilots that frequent the northeast, you may have noticed an increase in our staffing (specifically our Cl[Mod - Happy Thoughts] C facilities). ZBW possesses some fun, and challenging to fly at times, Cl[Mod - Happy Thoughts] C’s. Whether it is typical New England fog out on the Cape, the Berkshire Mountains near Albany or Block Island Sound and Narragansett Bay in Providence. Our students/controllers are encouraged to staff these facilities, so come explore some more of ZBW other than just Beantown. I've indeed noticed this, and it is much appreciated. One of the main reasons I used to avoid Boston (both flying and controlling wise) was because of the policy that Boston Logan was the first and preferred staffing airport, and then others. While I realized Boston was the biggest and most popular of all ZBW airports, I felt like no others were being staffed. Just the other night I saw BDL, PVD, CAPE, BOS staffed - kudos!! Nick Bartolotta - ZSE Instructor, pilot at large "Just fly it on down to within a inch of the runway and let it drop in from there." - Capt. Don Lanham, ATA Airlines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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