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P31 controller expressed concern regarding new facility operational procedure that reportedly increases workload.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 832494 |
| Time | |
| Date | 200904 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | P31.TRACON |
| State Reference | FL |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Approach Flight Data / Clearance Delivery |
| Qualification | Air Traffic Control Fully Certified |
| Experience | Air Traffic Control Non Radar 3 Air Traffic Control Radar 18 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Other New Procedure |
Narrative:
In apr/09; P31 operations manager placed a memo in the facility read binder changing nse arrival procedures effective in the next week. Prior to the memo; pilots inbound to nse via VFR routes change to tower frequency at a predetermined point. The new procedure requires pensacola TRACON controllers to switch the aircraft to the tower and; for an unknown amount of time; to advise each aircraft to remain on TRACON frequency until advised by TRACON to contact tower. The memo itself reads; '...when necessary' but the supervisors have been briefed to require it on every inbound. With hundreds of arrivals to nse each week day; this requirement is adding a large workload on the TRACON controllers and making frequency congestion a worse problem than it already is. This problem could have been avoided by asking nse tower to place a message about the new procedure on their ATIS broadcast.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: P31 Controller expressed concern regarding new facility operational procedure that reportedly increases workload.
Narrative: In Apr/09; P31 Operations Manager placed a memo in the facility read binder changing NSE arrival procedures effective in the next week. Prior to the memo; pilots inbound to NSE via VFR routes change to Tower frequency at a predetermined point. The new procedure requires Pensacola TRACON controllers to switch the aircraft to the Tower and; for an unknown amount of time; to advise each aircraft to remain on TRACON frequency until advised by TRACON to contact Tower. The memo itself reads; '...when necessary' but the supervisors have been briefed to require it on every inbound. With hundreds of arrivals to NSE each week day; this requirement is adding a large workload on the TRACON controllers and making frequency congestion a worse problem than it already is. This problem could have been avoided by asking NSE Tower to place a message about the new procedure on their ATIS broadcast.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.