Stuck at LAX due to ORD ATC Fire...

[JetPowered]

Was this a 'local' FAA facility or a 'center' type of facility that oversees all airspace in and out of the geographic area?

 

[jawsf16]

Was this a 'local' FAA facility or a 'center' type of facility that oversees all airspace in and out of the geographic area?

Chicago Center high altitude radar I believe. Significant impacts to Midway and O'Hare...

 

[Skysurfer2010]

Center. When entering Chicago airspace they dropped us down to 15k and handed us over to local approach controllers. We were going into MKE so it wasn't a big deal.

 

[JetPowered]

So what would the normal back up procedure be to cover a center outage? Surely at least some of the functionality can be transferred to a secondary facility.

 

[txav8r]

They are routing as much around their airspace as possible, but they cover a great deal of airspace.

 

[Freezer41]

So what would the normal back up procedure be to cover a center outage? Surely at least some of the functionality can be transferred to a secondary facility.

The surrounding centers are assuming control of high altitude but it is at a slowed rate. Also, like someone said above if you stay low you can get through by talking to approach control. I think they said right now they are at 80% of normal volume

 

[davel501]

Where there is a will there is a way! We have done that many times to get home when the $#!+ hit the fan! I hate going backwards however. We once went from ORD to SNA to get to DFW!

Yep, I have done PIT-DFW-ORD. Long day.