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Old 12th Aug 2011, 09:53
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Akhorahil
 
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Madrid TMA, big area from GND to FL245. Charged with the APP to LEMD (and take offs of course), LETO and LEGT (militar base, sometimes used for the Beluga). 8 controllers mean that you will have just one sector for some time at night, and a maximum of 3 sectors at best. With 3 sectors the capacity is low (at day we have up to 10 sectors, usually 8-9 for staffing), so the delay increases, and when the sectors joint to 1 the delay is still running up. Nothing we can do about it, we just work where we are told to do and open the sectors we are told, capacity is declared acording to the staff.
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