ZAN CTLR EXPERIENCED OPERROR AT FL330 DURING COMBINED SECTOR OPS AND COORD WITH ADJACENT FACILITIES.
Synopsis
ZAN CTLR EXPERIENCED OPERROR AT FL330 DURING COMBINED SECTOR OPS AND COORD WITH ADJACENT FACILITIES.
Narrative
AT XA05 I RELIEVED A PRIOR SHIFT CTLR ON SECTOR 11. SECTORS 10D; 10R; 11D; AND 11A WERE COMBINED TO SECTOR 11R. TRACK J AND K (TRANSITION TRACKS FROM ZOA) WERE IN ZAN AIRSPACE. MOST WERE FLT PLANNED TO R220. SEVERAL WERE NEAR POS NATES WHEN I SIGNED ON THE SECTOR. THERE WERE SEVERAL ACFT FLT PLANNED EBOUND ON A590. ONE OF THOSE ACFT WAS EXITING A590 XING TRACK J TFC AND PROCEEDING TO EIL. DURING THE TIME THAT I WAS TAKING POS RPTS AT NATES; I GAVE C-17 AT FL330 DIRECT ROUTING FROM POKNO TO EIL. I ALSO CLBED A340 TO FL330. A340 HAD BEEN REQUESTING FL340 FOR A WHILE AND I HAD TFC AT FL340. I WAS UNABLE TO PROVIDE HIGHER ALT TO AN ACR Z ACFT OVER NATES; SO I OFFERED A RERTE. THE ACR Z ACCEPTED THE RERTE; BUT IT TOOK A FEW MINS TO ISSUE IT AND I HAD TO REPEAT IT A SECOND TIME. THEN I HAD TO PUT THE INFO IN THE MEARTS SO THAT TOKYO APCH CTL WOULD HAVE AN ACCURATE XFER. I WAS ALSO GETTING INFO FROM ZOA ABOUT AN ACFT THAT WAS DIVERTING 15 MI N OF COURSE ON A TRACK JUST S OF MY AIRSPACE. ZOA THEN CALLED BACK TO COORD THE ACFT DIVERTING 30 MI N OF COURSE. ADDITIONALLY TOKYO APCH CTL CALLED WITH XFER INFO ON 5 ACFT. DURING ALL THIS; SEVERAL ACFT WERE CALLING ON FREQ. I KNEW THAT THERE WERE MORE CTLRS COMING IN AT XA30; SO I KNEW I WOULD SOON GET A D-SIDE. AT APPROX XA23 ONE OF THE XA30 CTLRS CAME IN AND ASKED IF I WANTED A BREAK. I SAID NO; BUT THAT I NEEDED A D-SIDE. HE WENT TO GET HIS HEADSET AND SIGN IN. DURING THAT TIME; A320 RPTED A TCAS ADVISORY.
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