ASA Flight Control FREQ

[fltdspx]

I agree with you 100% what we deal with in flight control is when the feds come into flight control ( and trust me they do and were just here the other day ) and ask where a flight is that I am responsible for

 

[ASA DX]

Fltdspx,

Once the dispatcher has been advised that we have been waiting for T/O or a gate for over 30 mins what options/tools can you help us with? Unless we are getting close to MINF for T/O or near running empty waiting for a gate there is very little you can do for us especially during IROPS which we are propabaly in at that point.

Honestly absolutely nothing..they want us to get with you to update your ETO..that is "estimated time off" so it will go into the plot. The plot (universal aircraft managing program that automatically transfers times into delta term). Even though you technically show "out" but not "off" there is a time lapse in there they are trying to account for. This is to let every other station know when you are expected to be airborn and to push back your ETA to that station. That way they can update pax at outstations waiting on your a/c to get there and flow out your return flight when you come back.

 

[atlcrjdriver]

Thx for the info

 

[ASA DX]

Thx for the info

As far as helping you get a gate..that is just IROPS in general. I cant call over and get gate space moved or getting those boyzz out there any faster. Trust me i put my time in over there back in the days when we nosing 6 brasilias out at C21 and C23. Spinning ATR's in the back at C24 and vibrating the windows there going to where operations used to be. In my opinion that is I guess, "you get what you pay for." All the good guys I can remember have left from over there..thank the ramp B scale implementation for running those guys away.

 

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I agree with you 100% what we deal with in flight control is when the feds come into flight control ( and trust me they do and were just here the other day ) and ask where a flight is that I am responsible for

And you have been at ASA for how long?

 

[fltdspx]

And you have been at ASA for how long?

long enough

 

[COOPERVANE]

If the feds are bothering you just drop a heavy object or a book on their foot and walk away while cursing.

 

[ohplease!]

We will not be able to look out the window when we move to the new G.O. don't get me wrong I am all for getting rid of the freq.however that doesn't seem like that will happen from what I hear now. This has all started up because of the de-ice problems the other week in ATL. there were flts out for 2-4 hrs before thay got off the ground. some of the fltswould not answer the ACARS nor there radio and Brad wanted to know where certain flts were and we had no answer for him.

Most of us listen up almost all the time (everyone forgets to flip freq. or turn up #2 once in a while) and most of us have no problem making a brief call for whatever reason may come up. What you have to understand (and I'm sure you do) is Will and a very few others were abused as children and now are forced to live in the south with all of us ignorant/incompetent/inbred/unedumacated/toothless/black/slaveowner
/public school morons. oh yeah...conservative bible thumping conservatives...

Whatever you do, don't lump the rest of us into that group.

 

[ohplease!]

If the feds are bothering you just drop a heavy object or a book on their foot and walk away while cursing.

Now thats funny. Worked once didn't it?

 

[www.]

long enough

Must be a sore subject.

 

[ASA DX]

And you have been at ASA for how long?

November of 1996 for me.

 

[fltdspx]

Must be a sore subject.

not really just that I've been in dispatch long enough to know that no matter what, things never change. No matter what management says or does as long as brother D calles the shots we will always be the red headed step child.. and yet we still seem to get the blame in flight control.

 

[fltdspx]

If the feds are bothering you just drop a heavy object or a book on their foot and walk away while cursing.

I will have to try that one

 

[10nCLR]

Question for ASA dispatchers. Do you seem to always be shorthanded?

 

[COOPERVANE]

Thats interesting. Most pilots and flight attendants would say we are the ones who get all the blame for everything. Every delay seems to be a crew delay.

Why the hell would my flight attendant get a sharply worded call from a "chief" flight attendant to ask why we were late when it was clearly a lack of GSE that caused it.

This company has no idea what it's doing

 

[10nCLR]

Thats interesting. Most pilots and flight attendants would say we are the ones who get all the blame for everything. Every delay seems to be a crew delay.

Why the hell would my flight attendant get a sharply worded call from a "chief" flight attendant to ask why we were late when it was clearly a lack of GSE that caused it.

This company has no idea what it's doing

Delta made me do it. Sorry

 

[Stifler's Mom]

I try to listen to 131.15 when I can, but if the chatter seems to be too much I will turn it down. If ground control is busy, and I have a newhire that may still be getting use to all the phraseology, you guys are going to be the ones I tune out in the equation.

There's been too much lately with incursions and such, I'm not a big mulit-tasker on the radios.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

ignorant/incompetent/inbred/unedumacated/toothless/black/slaveowner
/public school morons. oh yeah...conservative bible thumping conservatives...

Maybe somebody can answer this for me. Two things I've noticed recently, and I'm not getting the idea behind it. Anybody care to explain it?

1) What's with taking your Ford or Chevy truck, redoing the exhaust system so you have a pair of 18-wheeler exhaust pipes sticking straight out of the bed?

2) Cornhole? Who the hell came up with this backyard BBQ game, and couldn't "y'all" come up with a better name than that?

 

[ASA DX]

Question for ASA dispatchers. Do you seem to always be shorthanded?

Yes the turnover is crazy up there. No one stays..its just like the line. We are fully staffed now, but this is the first time in I'd say 2 years that we have been that way.

 

[fltdspx]

There's been too much lately with incursions

I think that's why the feds were in flight control the other week, asking dispatchers about 131.15