FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers

{"selectable":false,"height":"500","width":"800"} FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers (19??-Present) - A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) system of 25 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC)s operated with radar data provided by FAA radar sites, DoD radar sites, and other federal agency radar sites. These centers provide en route and oceanic services to private, commercial and military aircraft overflying their respective control areas. As aircraft enter or exit from one control area to the next, responsibility for the aircraft is transferred to the gaining ARTCC. Voice communication between aircraft and the ARTCCs is supported by a network of ground-air radio sites. In addition to the 25 FAA ARTCCs, there are 160 FAA Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facilities that provide services at terminals (airfields) these facilities have separate supporting radar and radio systems. The nations military airfields generally provide their own terminal services or share with FAA facilities when the airfields are joint use with civil aviation. The gathering of radar and other sensor data is now largely automated and continuous but the actions necessary to control the airspace are conversational and require some 14,000 FAA air traffic controllers talking directly to pilots in the air and on the ground at terminals. This number does not include the military air traffic controllers. En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) In 2015 the FAA completed a major upgrade to both the ARTCCs and to the underlying FAA portion of the radar system. The ERAM program replaced the 40-year-old En Route Host computer and backup system used at 20 FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers. That same year the FAA finished modifying all of their legacy radars (mostly modified FPS-20 derivatives) to the new Common Air Route Surveillance Radar (CARSR). According to the FAA, En Route controllers are now able to track 1,900 aircraft at a time instead of the previous 1,100 flight capability of each center. Coverage now extends beyond ARTCC boundaries into adjacent sectors. This extended coverage is possible because the new computer system can process data from 64 radars versus the 24 radar capacity with the old system. FAA Air Route Control Centers (edit list) No Code Center State Service Area GPS Notes 01 ZMA Miami ARTCC FL Eastern 25.82485, -80.31933 02 ZJX Jacksonville ARTCC FL Eastern 30.69892, -81.90829 03 ZDC Washington DC ARTCC DC Eastern 39.10153, -77.54286 04 ZNY New York ARTCC NY Eastern 40.784306, -73.096861 05 ZBW Boston ARTCC NH Eastern 42.73517, -71.48056 06 ZOB Cleveland ARTCC OH Central 41.29725, -82.20638 07 ZID Indianapolis ARTCC IN Central 39.73813, -86.28036 08 ZTL Atlanta ARTCC GA Eastern 33.379651, -84.29679 09 ZHU Houston ARTCC TX Central 29.961437, -95.33194 * 10 ZME Memphis ARTCC TN Eastern 35.06730, -89.95550 * 11 ZKC Kansas City ARTCC KS Central 38.88005, -94.79063 * 12 ZAU Chicago ARTCC IL Central 41.78276, -88.33132 13 ZMP Minneapolis ARTCC MN Central 44.63729, -93.15214 14 ZFW Fort Worth ARTCC TX Central 32.83078, -97.06665 * 15 ZAB Albuquerque ARTCC NM Central 35.17341, -106.56742 * 16 ZDV Denver ARTCC CO Western 40.18731, -105.12707 * 17 ZLC Salt Lake City ARTCC UT Western 40.78607, -111.95232 * 18 ZLA Los Angeles ARTCC CA Western 34.60331, -118.08379 19 ZOA Oakland ARTCC CA Western 37.5429, -122.01601 20 ZSE Seattle ARTCC WA Western 47.28693, -122.18819 * 21 ZAN Anchorage ARTCC AK Western 61.22920, -149.78030 22 ZHN Honolulu Control Facility HI Western 21.32087, -157.92654 23 ZSU San Juan CERAP PR Eastern 18.431273, -65.993459 24 ZUA Guam ARTCC GU Western 13.47885, -144.79708 See Also: SAGE System JSS System Permanent System Radar Sites US Radar Sets North Warning System Defense Installations Portal Links: FAA - By the Numbers, Archived 23 feb 2018 at File:Air Traffic By The Numbers.pdf CFIN Notebook- Air Route Traffic Control Center FAA - En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM), , Archived 23 feb 2018 at File:En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM).pdf