Anyone else sense a more adversarial and less accommodating (more proactive 'do what i say') deviations dealing with that Crazy line of weather along the Ohio River Friday Night?
It seems there has been a significant shift toward stressing (rather than suggesting) deviations based on what they 'see' on the ground over what our radar depicts live and in the cockpit.
Any ideas where this hostility is originating? There is less traffic than in years past and yet they seem more inclined to adhere to arrival and departure corridors and 'directive' to how we conduct those operations (ie crossing restrictions and descents directly into convective weather below rather than classic 'slam-dunks'. Actually heard a SWA @ FL400 get a bit heated in one sector that presumably wanted their strip off his table.
Used to be we could request a hold, but now they just use that against us with EFC's: NEVER/BACK OF THE LINE?
Is it connected to this 'deputization' of controllers with regard to potential violations/deviations?
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It seems there has been a significant shift toward stressing (rather than suggesting) deviations based on what they 'see' on the ground over what our radar depicts live and in the cockpit.
Any ideas where this hostility is originating? There is less traffic than in years past and yet they seem more inclined to adhere to arrival and departure corridors and 'directive' to how we conduct those operations (ie crossing restrictions and descents directly into convective weather below rather than classic 'slam-dunks'. Actually heard a SWA @ FL400 get a bit heated in one sector that presumably wanted their strip off his table.
Used to be we could request a hold, but now they just use that against us with EFC's: NEVER/BACK OF THE LINE?
Is it connected to this 'deputization' of controllers with regard to potential violations/deviations?
100-1/2