Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
The elephant in the room? One controller working only that location and not his overlying 500nm x 500nm sector as well? $$$$
I too wonder how ASA proposes that to work.
WRT the MNG incident, interestingly "back in the day" before FSUs were closed and FS sectors were consolidated, in the ML FSC one FSO worked the 122.4 FIA surface to the base of CTA. The sector was "FS7", usually a reasonably busy sector.
Generally a FS sector consisted of one or more FIAs, depending on traffic levels. Sectors were consolidated (combined) when the traffic levels permitted.
Back then the FSO working the 122.4 area would have had all traffic on that frequency (no CTAF/MTAF/MBZ then), and traffic info would be given by FS to IFRs when first aware of their movements, e.g. when the second reported taxying (there is on ground VHF coverage on 122.4).
However time and technology have moved on, and we wait and see how ASA proposes low level ATC sectors to manage their Class G and E airspace with a SAFIS.