Position Relief

KeepEmSeparated Rookie

Anyone have any documentation about a "2 minute rule" for position relief?

(Where the controller being relieved has to monitor the position for 2 minutes)

There's nothing about it in Appendix D.

travelingcutie Junior Member Portland, Oregon

Are you refering to 2-1-23 in the 7110?

"Transfer of Position Responsibility- ....shall be accomplished in accordance with the SOP and the appropriate facility directives each time operational responsibility for a position is transfered from one specialist to another."

Does this help?

boondr PHD without a degree North of the Equator

Yeah what he said.

Each facility will have the procedures "2 mins" seems to be the norm.

Roddy_Piper Resident Knucklehead Vegas baby

we had it in our R&I stating 2 minutes. it's not a .65 item. it's a locally adapted time. either SOP or R&I item.

ZOA we did 3 minutes, L30 we do 2 minutes.

GLF5 Senior Member

We aren't trusted here. Not only do we have to monitor 2 minutes, but at the end we have to record ourselves on a recorded line acknowledging the 2 minutes has expired with our initials. So dumb.

Roddy_Piper Resident Knucklehead Vegas baby

ditto on the initials on a recorded line. not only that, we have to say "2 minute overlap complete, JL". sheesh.

otterstrom Trusted Member of NATCA

most either don't do it or they walk away and swing by a minute later to record their initials over the coordinator handset

polo708 Epic Member tower

We have a local SOP requiring "a minimum of 2 minutes"

GLF5 Senior Member

Yeah haha, that's our exact phraseology too. We usually just say a bunch of garbage, then our initials...I mean really, does it matter what we say before the initials?

Roddy_Piper Resident Knucklehead Vegas baby

if i know i did the full 2 minutes, then i'll say "1 minute overlap complete"...hoping they do a tape talk for that time. lol.