meatasaurusx Trusted Member Chi-town

At C90 we have had several people who washed before the first year of probation (OTS hires) and they were all relocated to different facilities. Our facility manager is very good about trying to get a new facility for everyone who doesn't make it. There was one guy who was fired, but thats because he showed up drunk.

As far as what it takes to get CPC status at C90, there are two routes you can take, either departure or South satellite. Currently, they are sending everyone to south satellite to start because we have so many recent departure checkouts and trainees. Before you start training on either of those lines, you do flight data first, and then as you are training on a line, you also get VFR advisory training. For south sat. you start by training on Sectors 1&4 (almost always combined) and sector 2. these are the sectors that feed and work the final for Midway, as well as work most of the departures off of midway as well. After that, you move on to sector 3, which works the westbounds off of midway and sometimes the northbounds. In addition, there are 3 other controlled satellite airports- 2 in sector 3's airspace and one in sector 1/4's airspace- as well as numerous uncontrolled airports between all of the sectors.

If you start on departures, then you train on all of the ORD departure sectors. There is north, east/loop (these are split when we are landing 28,27L,27R), south, and west. Often north and east are combined as well as south and west, although some configurations have west and north combined and south and east. After you certify on departures, you move on to north satellite, where you work the two controlled airports and the several uncontrolled airports north of ORD.

After you finish one of the lines (departure or south sat) you train up front on ORD arrivals. On arrivals we have east arrival, west arrival, center arrival, a respective handoff position for each arrival, an east feeder and west feeder, and an east trip position, as well as three parallel monitor scopes. Center arrival is only used when we are landing a triple approach east or west. for the most part, we always have east and west arrival open, and when the traffic dictates we will open a feeder and sometimes use a feeder scope for a trip runway if we aren't landing the triple parallel approaches. You train separately on the vector and handoff positions for arrivals. Hopefully this helped to clear up the questions people had.