whynot Rookie

Which one do you prefer? Having done both, I prefer terminal. They have more rules to use to get your job done, and it appears they get more support from management than en-route does. I'm excluding NY from this because both the tracon and center are exempt from "rules" because they follow their own.....lol... That damn 5 mile range bubble is your main rule and they enforce it!

Roddy_Piper Resident Knucklehead Vegas baby

terminal. i quit the center when i just needed 2 more R-sides. didn't even regret it for a second. i was even on the old scale and still bounced. absolutely hated the center. couldn't see myself throwing away 10 years of tower experience to sit in a center for 20 years.

just my personal opinion.

ATCBOY Trusted Member Screwston

lol... I think everyone is trying to go Terminal.

ATC@ZID Junior Member

same here hoping I can goto the terminal route again soon.

polo708 Epic Member tower

also it takes sooo long to get checked out in a center where you are making halfway decent money.

Walt Rookie NW Georgia

Question about en route: Is there only one physical building/facility for each center? For instance, do all of the controllers who work at "Atlanta center" all work out of the same building located in the city of Atlanta? Or are there other physical locations?

Tks.

Adam Unregistered

Centers....i believe are all in the same building...i haven't been to them all, but I have been to a few and it was all in the same building. Centers do not have to be located in the city that they service...a lot of centers are located outside the city.

klkm Senior Member

I like center as it encompasses usually both functions with doing approaches to satellite airports, doing sequencing where you have some fudge room, much better sequencing for 10, 20, 30 miles in trail then sequencing for 3 mile finals. But, it also depends what center you are in, I'm sure some of the sectors at some centers could get boring with just overflights etc. Personally, I have the same respect for either route, we all deal with the same BS everyday.

Roddy_Piper Resident Knucklehead Vegas baby

eh brother, all u gotta do is resign. plus, i couldn't take another day working with those fallon approach guys. just kidding man. hope training is going well for you.

Roddy_Piper Resident Knucklehead Vegas baby

I'll only speak for Oakland center since that's the only place I worked.

ALL the controllers were in the same building, but not ALL the controllers were in the same room. The oceanic sectors were in a completely different room. Would only take a minute to walk to their area but it was still segregated some. Not sure why that is. Possibly the different systems they use from domestic sectors.

I think the centers are located somewhere other than where they are named because of security reasons from the cold war. We didn't want Russia to know where our centers were at. Could be rumor, I don't know.