feathers
March 2nd, 2004, 05:29 PM
I'll cut to the chase: In a nutshell, I want to see us start using the G/G panel.
Yes, yes, I know... I get on this kick about once every six months and ultimately it dies out and things carry on as normal. But the debate between Interphone and Override not withstanding, I have a different approach this time.
It occurs to me that we have voice training for the radio, so why not a voice training course for the G/G comms? I'm still piecing together exact details, but here's a general outline:
* Drill on procedures and phraseology as outlined in 7110.65 2-4-12. (This link (http://ntl.bts.gov/data/818.pdf), page 61) A study syllabus in our training section wouldn't be a bad way to do it, either.
* Take the phraseology to the chat windows. You have to learn to walk before you can fly, right? Besides, isn't that the same way we do it for the radio? Practice and get it right texting first. Then once someone (an Instructor?) decides you're ready...
* Leap to the G/G voice panel. I know sometimes it's clumsy and it doesn't work exactly like the government says it should and some of it got broken in ASRC 1.1... but it still works well for what it's supposed to do.
Maybe we could even squeeze in a test on phraseology there between the text and the voice sections. Just to make it 'official'.
Guys, I'd be happy to write something up and submit it to the board if I get a generally favorable response here. Or maybe I still will even if I don't get a favorable response. If this turns into my baby, I'll take it and run with it and see if I can't write up a little syllabus for approval and editing. Right now, I'm sure it could cover basic phraseology procedures and then sections on how to do handoffs, pointouts (I know that's already covered in our syllabi, but a refresher wouldn't hurt), runway crossing queries... and that grand mother of all: coordinating oceanic departures. Plus anything else that might require a G/G conversation. And finish it all off with a rundown of the G/G panel, how to set it up, work it and the quirks and traps you have to watch out for.
By the way, when I said the G/G VSCS panel doesn't operate exactly to government spec, there's one thing that the spec dictates that would probably satisfy everyone here. I know a big complaint I heard often was 'I have to stop what I'm doing and shuffle down through who knows how many pages of buttons to find the one that's ringing and pick it up' (at least for interphone calls). Would it surprise you to know that the g-spec says that on any given screen, there will be four blank buttons and any incoming call that is not immediately accessable on the displayed page will 'ring' in one of those four buttons? So you have immediate access -- anywhere in the VSCS -- to up to four incoming calls. Wouldn't that make life a lot easier? Shall we lobby the ASRC group? ^_^
I don't know how many of our vARTCC brethren are using the G/G voice panel, but I'd bet money not many of them are. How would you like to be the first to not only start using it regularly, but have a training program in place for it?
C'mon. As real as it gets, right? Who's with me?
James
Yes, yes, I know... I get on this kick about once every six months and ultimately it dies out and things carry on as normal. But the debate between Interphone and Override not withstanding, I have a different approach this time.
It occurs to me that we have voice training for the radio, so why not a voice training course for the G/G comms? I'm still piecing together exact details, but here's a general outline:
* Drill on procedures and phraseology as outlined in 7110.65 2-4-12. (This link (http://ntl.bts.gov/data/818.pdf), page 61) A study syllabus in our training section wouldn't be a bad way to do it, either.
* Take the phraseology to the chat windows. You have to learn to walk before you can fly, right? Besides, isn't that the same way we do it for the radio? Practice and get it right texting first. Then once someone (an Instructor?) decides you're ready...
* Leap to the G/G voice panel. I know sometimes it's clumsy and it doesn't work exactly like the government says it should and some of it got broken in ASRC 1.1... but it still works well for what it's supposed to do.
Maybe we could even squeeze in a test on phraseology there between the text and the voice sections. Just to make it 'official'.
Guys, I'd be happy to write something up and submit it to the board if I get a generally favorable response here. Or maybe I still will even if I don't get a favorable response. If this turns into my baby, I'll take it and run with it and see if I can't write up a little syllabus for approval and editing. Right now, I'm sure it could cover basic phraseology procedures and then sections on how to do handoffs, pointouts (I know that's already covered in our syllabi, but a refresher wouldn't hurt), runway crossing queries... and that grand mother of all: coordinating oceanic departures. Plus anything else that might require a G/G conversation. And finish it all off with a rundown of the G/G panel, how to set it up, work it and the quirks and traps you have to watch out for.
By the way, when I said the G/G VSCS panel doesn't operate exactly to government spec, there's one thing that the spec dictates that would probably satisfy everyone here. I know a big complaint I heard often was 'I have to stop what I'm doing and shuffle down through who knows how many pages of buttons to find the one that's ringing and pick it up' (at least for interphone calls). Would it surprise you to know that the g-spec says that on any given screen, there will be four blank buttons and any incoming call that is not immediately accessable on the displayed page will 'ring' in one of those four buttons? So you have immediate access -- anywhere in the VSCS -- to up to four incoming calls. Wouldn't that make life a lot easier? Shall we lobby the ASRC group? ^_^
I don't know how many of our vARTCC brethren are using the G/G voice panel, but I'd bet money not many of them are. How would you like to be the first to not only start using it regularly, but have a training program in place for it?
C'mon. As real as it gets, right? Who's with me?
James