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docs/controller-skills/airwork.md

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**KIY**: "PPB, No Reported IFR Traffic"
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<summary>Remarks</summary>
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### Remarks
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An aircraft's Flight Plan Remarks can be the first sign that airwork will be occurring. It can help you as a controller start your planning nice and early, and stay ahead of the game. If the pilot has left detailed remarks, it also means you can spend less time on the frequency asking them what they're doing.
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#### STS/ (Status) field
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`RMK/SVY OPS WI MAP 420`
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A pilot intending to conduct Aerial Survey Operations as per Map 420
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<summary>General Operations</summary>
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### General Operations
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<summary>Search and Rescue (SAR) Operations</summary>
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### Search and Rescue (SAR) Operations
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SAR Operations are conducted more or less as a standard airwork procedure. Handle the aircraft as any other normal aircraft transiting your airspace, with the airwork procedures shown above.
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**ASP**: "DDU, No Reported IFR Traffic. Call Ops Normal time on the hour"
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<summary>Practice Instrument Approaches</summary>
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### Practice Instrument Approaches
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A Practice Instrument Approach is simply an aircraft conducting an Instrument Approach with no intention of a full-stop landing. This is pretty straight-forward outside controlled airspace, as the pilot will often just request a traffic statement for a given radius from a fix. In controlled airspace, however, there can be quite a few things to consider.
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**AAE**: "YNJ, Cleared VOR-A Approach, make Sector Entry. At the minima, Fly Published Missed Approach"
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<summary>Aerial Surveys</summary>
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### Aerial Surveys
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![Aerial Survey Example](img/svy.jpg){ width="800" }
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Continue to ask the pilot questions in order to know exactly what they are doing. For separation assurance with the departing YMML traffic, you could ask *"Confirm you will be able to remain outside 40 DME ML?"*. You could ask the pilot what kind of turn they will be making at the completion of each run. You could also instruct the pilot to maintain a heading on the completion of a run for separation purposes.
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<summary>Parachute Operations</summary>
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### Parachute Operations
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Pilots on the network may choose to simulate Parachute Operations (PJE).
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Most procedures are the same for IFR aircraft, just remember that the situation changes when Class E airspace is involved, as it is now Controlled, and you must separate other IFR aircraft from the PJE aircraft and the chutes inside Class E airspace. As a controller, remember that you need to hold SARWATCH over the IFR aircraft in all Classes of airspace, until they cancel their SARWATCH or downgrade VFR.
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VFR PJE aircraft operating wholly within Class G or Class E airspace are still required to make broadcasts on frequency, and they are entitled to a traffic statement for Drop and Descent.
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docs/controller-skills/milkrun.md

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Milk Run Monday is a very busy event, that tests the limits of controllers at it's busiest. It is important to understand some processes that makes the event run as smooth as possible for all pilot and controllers involved. The information on this page is extracted from various Local Instructions and Controller Skills pages, collated to give all of the most relevant information to controlling the Milk Run event.
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The job of the ACD controller during Milk Run is a fairly straight-forward one, however there are a couple of things to be mindful of.
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A Reminder that [Off Mode Departures from Runway 16](../../aerodromes/classc/Melbourne/#off-mode-departures) to the North East and North West during the 16A27D Runway Mode must be assigned the **ISPEG** SID, **NOT** the DOSEL SID. The **ISPEG** SID deconflicts concurrent 16 and 27 departures, whereas the DOSEL SID does not.
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[YSSY](../../aerodromes/classc/Sydney/#standard-taxi-routes) and [YMML](../../aerodromes/classc/Melbourne/#standard-taxi-routes) both have Published Standard Taxi Routes that can be used to facilitate the orderly flow of traffic on the ground, but this does not preclude the SMC controller from using alternate routing if they deem it neccessary.
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In theory, aircraft should already be nicely sequenced when they enter your airspace, however, this is not always the case. There can also be additional aircraft that come in from other directions that need to be added to the sequence, which can make things challenging.
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The most important job of the ELW/BLA controller is the sequencing for YMML. Likewise, the most important job of the GUN/BIK controller is the sequencing for YSSY. In order to make the job of these controllers easier, it is beneficial for them to receive aircraft ***as early as possible***, so they can start to execute all the required actions, like assigning a STAR, amending route if required, enacting speed control, and issuing delay vectors or holding if required.
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It is also important to not accept aircraft that are in conflict! If the TMA controller is trying to handoff two aircraft pointed at each other at the same level, give them a call on the Hotline, and ask them to fix it before handing off to you. Of course you may offer/suggest a solution, but it should not be your conflict to solve.
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Although much of the detailed setup is up to personal preference, the following setttings are **strongly** recommended to help best execute the appropriate role.
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