Wednesday, October 14, 2009
yo yo...so yesterday at work was a total clusterfuck, let me explain
normally at LAX its in a west configuration, meaning you land to the west, and take off to the west. There are two sets of parallel runways(see pic), with the outside ones for landing, the inside ones for taking off. occaisonly, if weather conditions are bad enough they will move to east configuration, but it happens rarely, maybe a couple times a year. When it happens all the approaches change, airspace changes, everything is different.
so i was working a sector, my 2nd day training, and we saw the management people huddling together and they decided to go to east. So my instructor too over because he had to put all my planes in holding and it was very complicated. Then they came and said nevermind we're gonna stay west, so he tried to fix everything and set eveyrone back up for normal operations. THEN they finally decided to go east, and we had all these planes in holding. Everyone working is trying to find out what the hell we're doing because they wouldn;t make a decision. It was nuts. Everyone joked with me the rest of the day "hey interesting 2nd day eh?" It was pretty cool to see though, but pretty scary since once we went to east i had no idea about procedures or airspace. Its also weird because they go to it so rarely if your days off align just right you may never see it.
normally at LAX its in a west configuration, meaning you land to the west, and take off to the west. There are two sets of parallel runways(see pic), with the outside ones for landing, the inside ones for taking off. occaisonly, if weather conditions are bad enough they will move to east configuration, but it happens rarely, maybe a couple times a year. When it happens all the approaches change, airspace changes, everything is different.
so i was working a sector, my 2nd day training, and we saw the management people huddling together and they decided to go to east. So my instructor too over because he had to put all my planes in holding and it was very complicated. Then they came and said nevermind we're gonna stay west, so he tried to fix everything and set eveyrone back up for normal operations. THEN they finally decided to go east, and we had all these planes in holding. Everyone working is trying to find out what the hell we're doing because they wouldn;t make a decision. It was nuts. Everyone joked with me the rest of the day "hey interesting 2nd day eh?" It was pretty cool to see though, but pretty scary since once we went to east i had no idea about procedures or airspace. Its also weird because they go to it so rarely if your days off align just right you may never see it.
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