ICAOCODE: KZAK (Continental USA) Region: NAM ICAOCODE: KZOA (Oceanic Area including Washington Ocean, Oregon Ocean, Los Angeles Ocean, British Columbia (Canada) Ocean, Alaska Ocean, Hawai, Asia Ocean) Region: NAM
The airspace designated as Oakland OCA/FIR (KZAK) was established in 1984, when a portion of Anchorage FIR, the entire Honolulu FIR and the oceanic portion of Oakland FIR were consolidated. At that time the Oakland Center domestic 9020 computer provided the oceanic flight data processing. Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) continued publishing airspace information pertinent to the airspace under the designator KZOA wich is actually the designation for the domestic Oakland FIR.
The Oakland Oceanic Flight Information Region (FIR), controls approximately 21.3 million square miles of airspace, so 10% of the Earth surface, and borders the Anchorage FIR to the north, the Tokyo FIR to the west, the Aukland FIR to the south, and the coastline of the contiguous United States on the east.
In contrast, the twenty Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs) in the contiguous U.S. encompass roughly 3 million square miles. Oakland Oceanic FIR operates fully under ATOP procedures." http://www.ivaous.org/main/atc/oceanic/oo
"At the heart of Oakland ARTCC is a team of Air Traffic and Technical Operations Professionals. Oakland Center is unique in that two distinctly different air traffic control functions are handled here. There is the normal en route air traffic control as well as an oceanic air traffic operation that manages the largest volume of international airspace in the world at one facility. (...) Phone: (510) 745-3000" http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/artcc/oakland/
If you look at the western sky as the sun set over Southern California Monday you might have seen a spectacular show of contrails.
'When it's humid at higher altitudes contrails remain visible in the sky longer. Spectacular contrails today - like a tic-tac-toe board!' Ian Gregor, Communication Manager, FAA-Western-Pacific Region told NBCLA in an e-mail.
Why does not Ian Gregor provide the specific temperature maps of the hight these airplanes are travelling? Just talk does not fit an objective discussion about these trails.
