Section 4. Supplemental Duties
17-4-1. TELEPHONE CONFERENCES
a. The ATCSCC is involved in several daily
telephone conferences (TELCONs). TELCONs are
initiated and hosted by the ATCSCC for field
facilities, the appropriate Vice Presidents, and the
Chief Operating Officer. Supplemental conference
capability is available through the FAA's Remote
Transmitter Site and the Washington Operations
Center.
b. TMUs/TMCs utilize TELCONs when the need
arises to discuss, evaluate, or problem solve any
issues. These conference calls should include the
appropriate ARTCC TMU, adjacent terminal
facilities/towers, the ATCSCC, and the service area
TM branch or Service Area office office responsible
for TM.
c. TMUs/TMCs should actively participate in
facility briefings and user meetings in order to
promote, educate, and inform all concerned about the
function, role, and responsibilities of TM.
d. TELCONs are also used to maintain operational “Hotlines.” The objective of Hotlines is to provide
rapid communications between FAA facilities,
customers and other aviation interests when complex
air traffic and airspace issues are being managed.
Hotlines allow many participants the capability to
problem-solve complicated issues and reduces the
amount of coordination needed to implement
collaborated strategies. Hotlines may be initiated at
the request of both the FAA and other aviation entities
that substantiate its use. The operational Hotlines are
authorized for customer attendance; however, they
may be limited to listen-only capability.
1. The ATCSCC administers, facilitates, and
manages operational Hotlines.
2. Hotlines are used to communicate:
(a) Airport and airspace capacity issues.
(b) Constraint/capacity mitigation strategies.
(c) Route availability information and route
alternatives.
(d) Weather information.
(e) Equipment Outages.
(f) Customer preferences for initiatives and
alternatives.
(g) Special circumstances, contingency requirements and emergency events.
(h) All required coordination and information sharing necessary in regard to the event.
(i) Coordination that can be accomplished
quickly and precisely with all parties. If an item
requires extensive coordination, other communication sources will be used.
(j) Items that are not considered sensitive or
classified in nature.
NOTE-
Examples of sensitive or classified items include VIP
movement and military requirements or exercises.
17-4-2. SPECIAL INTEREST FLIGHTS
ATCSCC, ARTCC, and CERAP: Follow procedures
in FAAO JO 7610.4, Special Operations, Chapter 12,
Special Military Flights and Operations, Section 14,
Special Interest Flights, regarding special interest
flights from State Department designated special
interest countries. Forward all issues concerning
special interest flights to the DEN ATSC for relay to
the appropriate authorities.
17-4-3. ANALYSIS
a. The TMU analysis function or individuals
assigned analysis functions shall be responsible for
the collection and analysis of all available data as it
pertains to traffic capacity, traffic flows, points of
congestion, peak hours, etc. Specific areas of
consideration include, but are not limited to:
1. Sector demand (by hours).
2. Sector flows (route/altitudes).
3. Sector loading points.
4. Sector traffic breakdown by category of user.
5. Normal initiatives necessary to prevent
sector saturation.
6. Alternatives to prevent saturation and relieve
congestion/conflicts.
NOTE-
Alternatives must take into consideration other facility/sector capabilities.
7. Total facility traffic count and potential user
demand.
8. Sector staffing required to support potential
user demand.
9. Location of delays (by sector and airport).
b. Coordination with user organizations shall be
effected, when appropriate.
17-4-4. OPERATIONS MANAGER (OM)
SUPPORT
Facility TMUs shall maintain a working knowledge
of the major related fields of air traffic operations/responsibilities to effectively support the STMCIC in
dealing with special situations that may arise on a
daily basis. Reference sources that identify these
related areas are listed below.
a. Emergency plan: Numerous interfacility letters
of agreement are normally located at the STMCIC
complex concerning plans which have been
established to provide continuity in the event of a
disaster or emergency conditions that would limit air
traffic service. Additionally, in these binders are
instructions concerning security control of air traffic
and air navigation aids, defense readiness, and
physical security plans.
b. Accident procedures/bomb threats/search and
rescue procedures:
1. FAAO 8020.11, Aircraft Accident and
Incident Notification, Investigation, and Reporting.
2. Bomb threats.
3. National Search and Rescue Manual.
4. FAAO 1270.1, Freedom of Information Act
Program.
c. EA activity: FAAO JO 7610.4, Special
Operations.
d. Hijack situations:
1. FAAO JO 7610.4, Special Operations.
2. FAAO JO 7110.65, Air Traffic Control.
e. Suspect aircraft:
1. FAAO 1600.29, Law Enforcement Alert
Message System.
2. FAAO 7110.52, Suspected Illegal Use of
Aircraft.
3. FAAO JO 7110.67, Special Aircraft Operations
by Law Enforcement/Military Organizations.
f. Special flight operations: FAAO JO 7110.65,
Chapter 9, Special Flights.
g. FAAO 7210.38, Center Weather Service Unit
(CWSU).
NOTE-
In order to provide the maximum TM services, TM
personnel should be utilized to perform non-TM functions
only as a last resort.
17-4-5. DIVERSION RECOVERY
a. A diversion is a flight that is required to land at
other than its original destination for reasons beyond
the control of the pilot/company, e.g., periods of
significant weather. Diversion recovery is an
initiative orchestrated by the ATCSCC and system
users to minimize the impact of system disruption.
Diversion recovery will be utilized during and after
periods of significant weather or other phenomena
that has adversely impacted the system resulting in
flight diversions. The goal of the diversion recovery
initiative is to ensure that flights which have already
been penalized by having to divert to another airport,
do not receive additional penalties or delays. Flights
identified for diversion recovery shall receive
priority handling over other flights from their point
of departure.
b. Diversion flights are identified by having
“DVRSN” in the Remarks section of the flight plan,
or the user inputs the information into the Diversion
Recovery Tool (DRT). The following protocols will
be utilized in diversion recovery procedures:
1. A flight on the DRT, as listed in TBL 17-4-1,
is requesting priority. FAA facilities shall ensure the
auto-detect feature is not activated on their DRT.
FAA facilities shall view the “general aviation” and
“comments” columns when utilizing the DRT.
2. “High” priority indicates the user's preference within one company.
3. “Yes” priority indicates that special handling
is requested for the flight.
4. The user submitted preferred priorities may
be modified where necessary to maintain the
efficiency of the system.
c. The ATCSCC shall:
1. Implement diversion recovery.
2. Transmit an advisory to inform both field
facilities and users that a diversion recovery initiative
has been implemented and the DRT has been
activated.
3. Adjust the initiative as necessary to meet
changing conditions.
4. Transmit an advisory when the DRT has been
deactivated.
d. The ARTCCs shall:
1. Implement diversion recovery as directed by
the ATCSCC.
2. Notify the ATCSCC if they do not intend to
use the DRT. In such cases, the ATCSCC shall send
the Center a general message with the information as
stated in TBL 17-4-1, every 60 minutes until
diversion recovery is no longer in effect.
3. Provide expeditious handling in returning to
the system those flights identified by the ATCSCC/DRT as diversion flights.
4. Forward user diversion recovery requests to
towers and TRACONs. (See TBL 17-4-1).
NOTE-
DVRSN will be placed in the remarks section of the flight
plan by the user.
e. Towers and TRACONs shall:
1. Provide expeditious handling in returning to
the system those flights identified by the ARTCC/DRT as diversion flights.
2. Notify the overlying ARTCC TMU if they
will utilize the DRT.
TBL 17-4-1
User Recovery Priority Request Format
The following flights are requesting priority handling to their original destination. Please advise the appropriate FAA
facilities of this request.
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ACID
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Diverted
To
|
ETD
|
CTD
|
DEST
|
DCNTR
|
ACNTR
|
PRIORITY
|
COMMENTS
|
ZZZ111
|
MDW
|
2210Z
|
-
|
ORD
|
ZAU
|
ZAU
|
-
|
-
|
ZZZ222
|
PIT
|
2200Z
|
-
|
ORD
|
ZOB
|
ZAU
|
HIGH
|
-
|
ZZZ555
|
ATL
|
2300Z
|
2320Z
|
IAD
|
ZTL
|
ZDC
|
-
|
-
|
Note: *ETD=Proposed Wheels-up Time.
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