Week 6 at the EnRoute Academy

The Side by Side ATC Podcast by Tom Hanes

Episode notes

In this episode, I talk about what you can expect from the sixth week of the enroute academy.

This week is the BIG ONE!! Day 29 is the non-radar eval day!

Before you get to that day, you will go through some practice scenarios that are designed to be much harder than the eval scenarios will be. The FAA will take you past what you need to be able to do and will show you what could happen if a non-radar sector went "RED". That is what happens when a sector gets over 100% of its normal traffic. The complexity of the scenarios on the last 2 days of the non-radar lab its off the charts. Take heart! You won't have to work a scenario that difficult on your eval day. It may be close, but it won't be like 23-27.

By the end of the week, you are starting the radar section of the enroute program. Now is where the fun re ... 

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