Duties
Routes
Tools
Acronyms
Hubs
TMIs
Unimatic
100
This is the amount of holding fuel that shall be carried within 30 minutes of a VIP movement at EWR.
What is 60 minutes?
100
This method of filing with ATC allows filing of optimum routes provided you remain at or above FL290 and have a point 200 miles from a departure and arrival airport.
Just don't expect the welcome wagon from ZDC.
What is NRP?
100
This tool in WSI Fusion can analyze FAA Route Advisories?
What is the ATFM Tool?
100
This acronym represents the time an aircraft can be "wheels up".
What is EDCT?
100
You'll get Eero Saarinen appreciation time when a straight 30 operation limits the arrival rate to 32 at this airport.
What is Washington - Dulles?
100
This TMI will happen at EWR any time there is a raindrop in Western Pennsylvania.
What is a Ground Delay Program?
100
This Unimatic command is definitely not fluff. It will show you the current wheels up time for a flight.
What is FLF?
200
This is the term ATC uses when out of contact with a flight for more than 5 minutes?
What is NORDO?
200
These pre-coordinated and named routes ensure that your transcon passengers get a tour of El Paso.
What are Playbook Routes?
200
This monitor allows dispatchers to see traffic demand across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
What is Flight Schedule Monitor (FSM)?
200
This letter when not phonetically referring to a tasty beverage, represents RVSM in the ICAO Flight Plan.
What is W?
200
If your crews accept the Stadium Visual to this airport, they'll fly over the Meadowlands and boost the arrival rate to 48.
What is Newark? (EWR)
200
Houston can handle thunderstorms like a champ, but will have no choice but to issue one of these if a tornado is on the field.
What is a Ground Stop?
200
Checking this star filled unimatic display will tell you what weights are closed out and who your load planner is.
What is DPWM?
300
This is what you should put in Line 18 of the ICAO Flight Plan if your flight is carrying human organs for transplant.
What is STS/MEDEVAC?
300
These "money" routes are what ATC may utilize when in SWAP or other high volume periods?
What are Coded Departure Routes (CDRs)?
300
Similar to a cooking style that blends the cuisine of various cultures, this tool allows us to view the ASDE-X feed at certain airports.
What is Fusion?
300
This facility calls the arrival rate and transitions aircraft from the enroute to local environment?
What is TRACON?
300
There's no gold rush if this airport goes to a straight west flow as the arrival rate will crater to 45.
What is San Francisco? (SFO)
300
You'll likely see EWR call for this initative when too many "white" departures go visit Mickey, Bush Gardens, and on cruises.
What is Miles in Trail?
300
Normally done in DV, this unimatic command serves as your backup for seeing what radio numbers have been used.
What is RPQ?
400
These letters are useful when flight 599 BOS-IAD is projected to arrive within close proximity of flight 599 IAD-LAS.
What are C, J, K, L and T?
400
Jacob wishes he had these routes to let him escape airports provided he filed at or below FL230.
What are LADDR Routes?
400
This federal tool allows the user to identify the Coded Departure Routes and Preferred Route Database.
What is the Route Management Tool (RMT)?
400
This acronym is short for Departure Clearance via CPDLC.
What is DCL?
400
We may "have a problem" at this airport if there are strong northerly winds and should plan additional taxi fuel.
What is Houston Intercontinental? (IAH)
400
This "Phantom of the Airspace" appears when an aircraft calls for clearance at a local or first tier airport going to a busy airport causing a wheels up time.
What is Time Based Flow Management (TBFM)?
400
This unimatic command can show you recent actual taxi times during an ORD deicing event.
What is TXDV?
500
If the forecast for ORD calls for at least two inches of accumulations, the MAT will activate this flurry-focused position.
What is the Snow Desk?
500
These wet routes avoid ZDC and push traffic offshore between the Northeast and Flordia?
What are the WAT routes?
500
Despite its "fast" name, ATC coordinators use this tool to manage the slow crawl of Ground Delay Programs.
What is Flash?
500
Developed after the dot matrix printer, this procedure allows simulations dependent approaches to closely spaced parallel runways like SFO.
What is .308?
500
The arrival rate at this airport becomes "Butch"ered from 114 to 88 if runway 22L can not be used for departures.
What is Chicago O'Hare?
500
This TMI makes sure that no Allegiant flights going to Sanford get out of the delays for aircraft headed for the Orlando area.
What is an Airspace Flow Program (AFP)?
500
"Hold on!" This Unimatic command doesn't track your active flight; instead, it shows the "Planned vs. Actual" performance of previous arrivals, helping you spot a trend of holding or vectoring.
What is FPDV?
600
This is the interval of the call where an ATC coordinator liaises with the FAA and gets annoyed by Kenny.
What is 2 hours?
600
These routes transit non-radar airspace through the gulf and require both overwater equipment and ATC Desk Approval.
600
Dispatchers looking for traffic management and constraints in Mexico, Central and South America look to this tool which shares its name with the Spanish word for chain.
What is CADENA?
600
While line controllers think they put the "M" in stupid, this group is the ATC coordinator's primary interface at a center.
What is TMU?
600
Creepy horses won't be leaving on a jet plane if high based CB's and microbursts shut off approaches to this airport.
What is Denver? (DEN)
600
A favorite of Denver Controllers, this procedure attempts to bring balance to force of arrivals by shifting some from the light side to the dark side.
What is Fix Balancing?
600
New flow, who dis?
This unimatic command may be more complicated than a new smartphone, but can show you all the wheels up time on your desk.