New York Air Route Traffic Control Center
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[edit] New York Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZNY)
New York ARTCC is located at 4205 Johnson Ave, Ronkonkoma, NY. The town of Ronkonkoma is located on Long Island. New York ARTCC is one out of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers in the US. Their primary resposibility is the separation or overflights and expedited sequencing for both arrivals and departures along STARs (Standard Terminal Arrival Routes) and DPs (Departure Procedures) for the entire New York Metropolitan Area along with Philadelphia. The Class Bravo aka Class B airports that ZNY assumes enroute control over include EWR, LGA, JFK and PHL. Altogether, New York Center owns 3.27 million square miles of airspace. Broken down, ZNY contatins 17,000 square miles of mainland airspace and 3.25 million square miles of oceanic airspace.
[edit] The Basic Breakdown
The sector shelves start as low 5,500 AGL and top out as high as Flight Level 600 (60,000) AGL. ZNY is broken into Low Altitude and High Altitude sectorization and contains 16 Low Altitude sectors and 12 High altitude sectors making a combined total of 28 sectors excluding Oceanic sectors. Unlike many ARTCC's within the CONUS, ZNY does not contain any Super High Altitude sectors. Within the Center there are 6 Areas, sometimes known as specialties at other ARTCC's.
[edit] Area Breakdown
In ZNY, those Areas are Lettered A through F. Area A covers the south edge of Pennsylvania and feeds arrivals into PCT (Potomac Consolidated TRACON) which runs arrivals and departures for DCA, BWI, and IAD primarily among many airports. Area B covers the East side of Pennsylvania and all of New Jersey. Area B controls westbound, southbound and southwest bound departures out of N90 (New York TRACON). Area B sequences most of those departures into streams for the STARs into BWI, IAD, and DCA. Area C covers the north edge of Pennsylvania. Area C controls both eastbound arrivals into JFK on the LENDY5 STAR and some westbound departures out of N90. Area D is right in the middle of Pennsylvania and butts up against Cleveland ARTCC's (ZOB) east border. Area D handles the PHL SPUDS1/SLATT1 STAR along with PHL departures departing via the PTW (Pottstown VOR aka VHF omnidirectional range) exit to head westbound. Area D's High Altitude sectors handles all westbound N90 departures. They also handle the MIP3 (Milton 3) STAR into LGA and FQM1 (Williamsport 1) STAR into EWR. Area E is the first set of Oceanic sectors that mainly have control over the Atlantic just off shore from New York and New Jersey. Area E maintains one "mainland" Oceanic sector that feed arrivals and departures to transition from the NATS (North Atlantic Tracks) onto the STARs into international airports such as IAD, JFK, EWR, and PHL. Area F is the other set of Oceanic sectors and maintains control of the South Atlantic. Just like Area E, Area F assumes responsibility for two "mainland" high altitude oceanic sectors just off the coast of New York. Combined, Area E and Area F are surrounded by Miami ARTCC (ZMA), Jacksonville ARTCC (ZJX), Washington ARTCC (ZDC), Boston ARTCC (ZBW), San Juan FIR, Piarco FIR, Shanwick Oceanic Control in the UK, Santa Maria FIR (Azores) Portugal. Moncton and Gander FIRs in Canada. Area F also controls the area of the North Atlantic including Bermuda (Bermuda International Airport controlling flights only on approach, the ground, or departure), and the Caribbean area .
[edit] Area A
High Altitude Sectors
- EMI 09 (Westminster 09) - 134.32
- HAR 10 (Harrisburg 10) - 133.47
Low Altitude Sectors
- HYPER 11 (HYPER 11) - 132.5
- MXE 25 (Modena 25) - 135.45
- LRP 26 (Lancaster 26) - 133.67/ 133.17
- MDT 27 (Middletown 27) - 132.2
[edit] Area B
High Altitude Sectors
- ETX 42 (East Texas 42) - 127.17
- JFK 56 (Kennedy 56) - 125.32
Low Altitude Sectors
- PARKE 39 (PARKE 39) - 132.1
- ARD 55 (Yardley 55) - 134.6
- DIXIE 68 (DIXIE 68) - 118.97
[edit] Area C
High Altitude Sectors
- ULW 34 (Elmira 34) - 132.17
- SFK 49 (Stony Fork 49) - 121.32
Low Altitude Sectors
- HUO 35 (Huguenot 35) - 132.6
- SAX 36 (Sparta 36) - 133.15
- CFB 50 (Binghamton 50) - 133.35
- LHY 51 (Lake Henry 51) - 134.45
[edit] Area D
High Altitude Sectors
- PSB 73 (Phillipsburg 73) - 132.87
- MIP 75 (Milton 75) - 128.57
Low Altitude Sectors
- BWZ 74 (Broadway 74) - 133.5
- FQM 91 (Williamsport 91) - 124.9/ 134.8
- PTW 92 (Pottstown 92) - 124.62
- SWISSDALE 93 (Swissdale 93) - 123.62
[edit] Area E
High Altitude Sectors
- KATHY 82 (KATHY 82)
- FAIRR 83 (FAIRR 83)
Low Altitude Sectors
- MANTA 66 (MANTA 66) - 134.55
Non-Radar Sectors
- CHAMP 87 (CHAMP 87)
- BACUS 88 (BACUS 88)
- KRAFT 89 (KRAFT 89)
- GRATX 90 (GRATX 90)
[edit] Area F
High Altitude Sectors
- JOBOC 65 (JOBOC 65) - 125.92
- ATLANTIC 86 (ATLANTIC 86) - 132.15
Low Altitude Sectors
- COCOA 80 (COCOA 80)
Non-Radar Sectors
- SOUTH ATLANTIC 70 (SOUTH ATLANTIC 70)
- GEMINI 71 (GEMINI 71)
- MERCURY 72 (MERCURY 72)
