A miami center (ZMA) controller reports of having to spin an aircraft because the jacksonville cente...

Narrative:

Aircraft X was level at FL410 and flashing to jacksonville center (ZJX) knemo sector. The aircraft was two minutes from the boundary and the ZJX controller had still not taken the handoff. (This is a standard procedure with many controllers at ZJX.) as we are trained to do we called knemo sector for the handoff. They did not answer on the 1st; 2nd or 3rd calls. We then initiated a turn to a 120 heading. The aircraft was about a minute away from the boundary at this time. Then I am unsure if the aircraft was able to turn in time. As the aircraft was turning I called again for a handoff or a point out so as to avoid the airspace violation. The ZJX controller finally answered the line and said radar without identifying the aircraft in question. A few seconds later the computer showed the handoff had been accepted. At this time we cleared the aircraft to ilm and shipped him to the knemo sector.we have to call ZJX on approximately 20% of the northbound aircraft. It seems as if several controllers in torry/knemo purposely wait until the aircraft are at or within 2 minutes of the boundary to take handoffs. This is a very dangerous situation as it leaves no room for error. It would be nice if they took hand off sooner so as to avoid this sort of situation.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A Miami Center (ZMA) Controller reports of having to spin an aircraft because the Jacksonville Center (ZJX) Controller would not take the handoff. When the aircraft was in its turn; the ZJX Controller took the handoff. The ZMA Controller reports this type of thing happens often.

Narrative: Aircraft X was level at FL410 and flashing to Jacksonville Center (ZJX) Knemo sector. The aircraft was two minutes from the boundary and the ZJX controller had still not taken the handoff. (This is a standard procedure with many controllers at ZJX.) As we are trained to do we called Knemo sector for the handoff. They did not answer on the 1st; 2nd or 3rd calls. We then initiated a turn to a 120 heading. The aircraft was about a minute away from the boundary at this time. Then I am unsure if the aircraft was able to turn in time. As the aircraft was turning I called again for a handoff or a point out so as to avoid the airspace violation. The ZJX controller finally answered the line and said radar without identifying the aircraft in question. A few seconds later the computer showed the handoff had been accepted. At this time we cleared the aircraft to ILM and shipped him to the Knemo sector.We have to call ZJX on approximately 20% of the northbound aircraft. It seems as if several controllers in Torry/Knemo purposely wait until the aircraft are at or within 2 minutes of the boundary to take handoffs. This is a very dangerous situation as it leaves no room for error. It would be nice if they took hand off sooner so as to avoid this sort of situation.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1246030
Time
Date	201503
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZMA.ARTCC
State Reference	FL
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Medium Transport Low Wing 2 Turbojet Eng
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	Vectors
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Enroute
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Experience	Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 21
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Airspace Violation All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

A miami center (ZMA) controller reports of having to spin an aircraft because the jacksonville center (ZJX) controller would not take the handoff. When the aircraft was in its turn; the ZJX controller took the handoff. The ZMA controller reports this type of thing happens often.