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Ian Elchitz

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Jun 5, 2002, 4:16:58 PM6/5/02
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Thought some people might be interested to see what John Carr (NATCA President)
had to say about our busy friends at Cleveland Center.

Ian Elchitz

(From USATODAY)
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Euclid, OH: I read somewhere that the air traffic over Cleveland is the heaviest
in the nation? Is that true? More than in places like NY, Chicago or Atlanta?


John Carr: A short course in air traffic control:

Your airplane is like a baton in a relay race, passed from controller to
controller to controller as you make your way through the system.

Towers work you from the airport to a point at the edge of their area of
responsibility...a couple of miles, perhaps.

TRACONS, or Terminal Radar Approach Controls, work you to a point 40 or 50
miles away.

ARTCCS, or Air Route Traffic Control Centers, work large, vast expanses of
airspace, and work you up and down and across the nation.

There are over five hundred towers in the US. There are maybe a hundred or
so TRACONS. There are 20 Centers.

(End of long answer coming shortly!)

Cleveland CENTER is the busiest air traffic control facility in the world,
working over 3 million operations each of the last several years. No other
facility has ever broken the three million mark. Cleveland Center works all
Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philly, Cincy traffic plus a lot of East Coast
traffic descending from the west, and a lot of West Coast destinations as
they climb out from the east.

Their geographic location makes them ideally suited and centrally located.
The Cleveland Center airspace is the great mixing bowl of the Midwest.

Gary Frothingham

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Jun 5, 2002, 7:05:19 PM6/5/02
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There ain't no place like (Virtual) Cleveland ARTCC....Canada traffic from/to
the North, lots of East/West enroute, three Class B airports, many many other
good airports, the Great Lakes !, and a fun staff.

Gary Frothingham
ZOB C-3/V

Ernie Alston

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Jun 5, 2002, 9:36:55 PM6/5/02
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On 5 Jun 2002 21:16:58 +0100, "Ian Elchitz"
<ielchitz@NOSPAM_eleventhstreet.com> wrote:

Its that central location with those 5 or 6 large airports, makes em
very busy.

I would think NY's airspace would be # 1 in terms of actual traffic
density.


Ernie.

Bill Irvine

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Jun 6, 2002, 10:52:34 AM6/6/02
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Thanks, Ian, for reminding me why I quit controlling at CLE
geez, and I thought it was just me ;-)

Bill Irvine

Ian Elchitz wrote:

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