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What I meant is that I hear the same person at 9 am in the morning and at midnight! Of course they keep switching between two FSS people the whole day so I'm wondering if the shift is like 12 hours long?sigmet77 wrote:Most FSS work the entire shift in the cab, 8+ hours; at some busier sites they will have 2 people on day shifts and rotate, otherwise they are there all shift.
praveen4143 wrote:What I meant is that I hear the same person at 9 am in the morning and at midnight! Of course they keep switching between two FSS people the whole day so I'm wondering if the shift is like 12 hours long?sigmet77 wrote:Most FSS work the entire shift in the cab, 8+ hours; at some busier sites they will have 2 people on day shifts and rotate, otherwise they are there all shift.
Lol! No I've personally met every single one of the Flight Service Specialists here over the course of many tours I've taken my students up to the cabin.. And I can differentiate every single voiceiflyroads wrote: No first day of ATC school is how to sound the same as every other controller. Its actually scary how a like a lot of them sound. They all have the same voice. Im convinced its a course or something.
I do not envy their wildly varying routines! Even more respect to the guys and galsof the FSS here... They already do an awesome job without having to deal with such a messed up schedule!W0XOF wrote:Now that I've read your user name Praveen 4143, I'm certain I know which site you are talking about. Without giving the site name away, they work 9.1 hr shifts. They generally start their rotation (daylight savings time anyhow), 9am to 6pm, 5am to 2pm and 10pm to 7am (aprx times). For the most part, its two 9am shifts, than two 5am shifts with a shortchange on the last one, off at 2pm and back at 10pm the same day. Usually always ending the rotation on an overnight shift. Or a combination of those shifts (two 9am's, one 5am and two 10pm's etc).
There is also an evening shift 1pm to 10pm, but that rotation is just a series evening shifts to get away from an extra shortchange back to days. There are other variables but that's pretty much it. There are also some 730 am floater shift starts.
To make it more confusing, over a 63 day period, it averages 4 on 3 off, with the last week 5 on 2 off. It looks different on paper though.
Thank you.. Just want to make sure you guys know that we appreciate your help up there as well.. Even though we might get on your nerves every once in a whileW0XOF wrote:I'm glad to hear you're happy with the service we're providing Praveen. We do appreciate working with you and the company you work for. You're very knowledgeable and accomodating. Especially during this time of the year, as traffic gets more complex, considering most the province is on fire. Not to mention upcoming airport construction. Any other questions, concerns or complaints, just pop on up.
What was going on that the Supervisor was there on a Saturday?JonYTS wrote:I asked this same question to my local FSS team a little while back. I may be wrong in some ways, but I know the night shift for the local radio is 2030 local to 0630 local. They do a change at 1230 and 1330 local also. They rotate on 3 radio positions and maybe one person checking the weather too. Overnights are two radios, the local and one RAAS. They used to work 6 on 3 off, and now it's 4 on 4 off 10.5 hrs. I visited for one hour on a Saturday morning, there were 4 FSS guys and 1 sup.
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