NY Center - Ground Stop

[Skates97]

This will mess up some things.

[hammdo]

Yikes!

-Don

[Yooper Rocketman]

Indy  Center was having issues today too.  I flew from the U.P. to KOSU (Columbus, OH) on my trip to Florida because I was picking up and dropping a friend off in KAAF to drive his mom home.  Picking up my clearance I was cleared to 3k, expect 10k in 10 minutes???   I asked the controller “ did I screw up my flight plan, thought I filed FL280?  He said no, Indy Center was down (I assume “THE VIRUS”) and all traffic south until ATL Center was being handled by approach controllers and nothing above 13k would be available.  I got passed by an Airbus motoring along at 10k.  That was weird!

i DID eventually get an Indy controller south of KCVG and got FL280 before I had to add a fuel stop.   This plane DRINKS FUEL down low!

Tom

[markgrue]

20 hours ago, Yooper Rocketman said:

Indy  Center was having issues today too.  I flew from the U.P. to KOSU (Columbus, OH) on my trip to Florida because I was picking up and dropping a friend off in KAAF to drive his mom home.  Picking up my clearance I was cleared to 3k, expect 10k in 10 minutes???   I asked the controller “ did I screw up my flight plan, thought I filed FL280?  He said no, Indy Center was down (I assume “THE VIRUS”) and all traffic south until ATL Center was being handled by approach controllers and nothing above 13k would be available.  I got passed by an Airbus motoring along at 10k.  That was weird!

i DID eventually get an Indy controller south of KCVG and got FL280 before I had to add a fuel stop.   This plane DRINKS FUEL down low!

Tom

imagine what that airbus was drinking at 10k...

 

Mark

 

[Yooper Rocketman]

34 minutes ago, markgrue said:

imagine what that airbus was drinking at 10k...

 

Mark

 

I WAS THINKING EXACTLY THAT, as I was complaining about my 48 gallon per hour fuel burn to ATC looking for higher.  
 

Tom

[markgrue]

I guess they cannot just announce their intentions and go with it....