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Messages - Owen Bliss

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The Control Room Floor / Re: ARTCC Requests

« on: September 11, 2018, 08:40:37 AM »

Thanks for the replies. My concern was the fact that I had just contacted center to the west at FL390 at the border. When I checked in he told me to descend. I understand descending before/near the border, but I wasn't even at cruise for 15 mins before I was descending to FL330 to cross the border when I was a few hundred miles from the border.

The Control Room Floor / ARTCC Requests

« on: September 08, 2018, 09:50:23 AM »

Good morning,

I am currently flying from Dallas Love (KDAL) to Atlanta (KATL). Memphis center logged on and sent me a contact-me. My filed cruise altitude is FL390. I am over 200 miles from my top of descent (T/D) and the center controller instructed me to descend and maintain FL330. Upon questioning him on why I needed to descend to FL330. His response was "Per Atlanta Centers request". Now keep in mind, Atlanta Center is currently offline. I am looking at the real flight I am following and they have just started there descent, but they are also about 30 mins ahead of me. I responded back to center informing him that I would not be able to descend to FL330 due to the fact that I would be using my reserve fuel into Atlanta.So now I am cruising at FL370. Is there any reason why I would be instructed to descend so early? I do understand that there are certain LOAs, and SOPs. But this is a first.

The Control Room Floor / Re: What's the busiest Sweatbox scenario you've ever seen/ran/built?!

« on: September 06, 2018, 09:00:32 AM »

Here at Fort Worth we have a few tough files we like to run. The D10 Death is my personal favorite. 30 Aircraft from all arrival gates. What makes it even better is when you run the Euro-scope file, and they actually fly the RNAV arrival.

General Discussion / Re: Why flying your airplane well is the most important part of a successful FNO

« on: September 06, 2018, 08:46:52 AM »

Quote from: Shane VanHoven on September 02, 2018, 05:32:35 PM

...With video evidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m2Tt7JrT3Q

Thanks for everyone who flew into the ZMP FNO last Friday, it could very well have been one of the most enjoyable FNO's that I've ever worked.

But for goodness sake. Can we please figure out how to intercept the localizer? Go ahead and watch that timelapse linked above... Someone counted 44 (FORTY-FOUR) localizer overshoots. Our final controllers got their butts handed to them because of how much extra hand holding they had to do on the final because of people that can't be bothered to hit the APP button on their autopilot.

Also, fly your assigned speed please.

Also, X-Plane users with slow frame rates: https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/26517-autospeed/

Notice how much of an impact every overshoot has on the aircraft behind them. It snowballs really fast and if the traffic flow doesn't have natural breaks to allow the final to recover, poop hits the fan really fast.

But anyway, it was fun, thanks for flying in.

This has to be one of the best posts I've seen in ages.