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Nct controller disagreed with their supervisor about which facility should retain communications with aircraft conducting a special operation.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1365790 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201606 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | NCT.TRACON |
| State Reference | CA |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Helicopter |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Route In Use | VFR Route |
| Flight Plan | VFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Approach |
| Qualification | Air Traffic Control Fully Certified |
| Experience | Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 7 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy |
Narrative:
A flight of four helicopters were pre coordinated by management to depart nuq airport and transition the class B of sfo at 1000 feet right over the departure end of runway 28L and 28R. The flight did not want to talk to sfo tower but stay with departure. Departures were held; but arrivals continued to runway 28L and 28R. I instructed my front line manager that this was an unsafe operation in case of a go around. He instructed me to continue and not let sfo tower talk to them. The helicopters transitioned the airspace without an event; but this is an unsafe operation approved by management.the helicopters should be talking to the facility that owns the airspace that could have traffic for them.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: NCT Controller disagreed with their Supervisor about which facility should retain communications with aircraft conducting a special operation.
Narrative: A flight of four helicopters were pre coordinated by management to depart NUQ airport and transition the Class B of SFO at 1000 feet right over the departure end of Runway 28L and 28R. The flight did not want to talk to SFO tower but stay with departure. Departures were held; but arrivals continued to Runway 28L and 28R. I instructed my Front Line Manager that this was an unsafe operation in case of a go around. He instructed me to continue and not let SFO tower talk to them. The helicopters transitioned the airspace without an event; but this is an unsafe operation approved by management.The helicopters should be talking to the facility that owns the airspace that could have traffic for them.
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.