Reduced ServicesĪs noted, most controllers manage workload by trimming what they can do. On certain days at peak times, you were lucky to land at all. Immediately, at facilities like mine, staffing-based services such as line up and wait, saturated patterns (five to seven at once), practice approaches, and others all went away. Now ability aside, this is normally a two-person, or maybe even three-person function even on slow days. I worked a couple 150-plus ops-per-hour rounds by myself-I was Tower, Ground, Clearance, Flight Data, and oh yeah, I was also the Controller in Charge (CIC). In the wake of COVID-19, there might have only been one controller available for relief. There is generally a supervisor and/or a couple other controllers who can relieve someone.
Not all facilities got that.ĭuring a normal workday, few controllers work alone.
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So, those locales hadn’t returned to full force, but did require an increased staffing over the lowest level. Then after 14 days the flight schools returned and it suddenly went back up to 400 or more and kept rising. For example, what was 900 operations per day went down to around 100. Then, 14 days later, there’s still less staffing and some flying resumes, mainly in the flight schools. The virus hit less staffing is required to handle reduced flying. While the airlines will take a lot longer to recover, some flight schools took the “14-day quarantine” literally and returned to the airport on day 15 ready to go full speed.īasically, how the FAA reacted didn’t exactly line up with how pilots reacted. For ATC, fewer customers require less staffing. Meanwhile, a good portion of NAS customers stopped flying.
All over the country, seven or eight-person days were down to four or even less. Other facilities soon followed with reducing staffing. Some facilities closed due to positive COVID-19 tests. The FAA started to realize the impact and almost immediately sent home all non-essential workers. What started out as a “knee jerk” reaction slowly turned into a cautious “logical” one as information became available. Airlines to f light training were all moving with a purpose in an often near-full system. Back in the January/February 2020 time frame, the NAS was hopping.
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