2440 Airport Blvd. Pensacola, FL 32504

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome Letter ....................................................................................................... 3 Pensacola TRACON/Tower Today......................................................................... 4 Pensacola TRACON/Tower Organizational Chart ..............................................5-6 Our Expectations of All Employees.................................................................... …7 Policies .................................................................................................................8-9 Local Area Information....................................................................................10-12 Online Resources .............................................................................................13-14 Festivals and Holidays .......................................................................................... 15 At Work in the TRACON ..................................................................................... 16 Pensacola Area Map.............................................................................................. 17 Airport Diagram .................................................................................................... 18 Sectional ................................................................................................................ 19 Photos of the Airport ........................................................................................20-21 Pensacola TRACON/Tower Directory ................................................................. 22

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Welcome Letter

Dear New Employee, Welcome to Pensacola TRACON/Tower! Here you will have an opportunity to work with an outstanding team of professionals that help make us a great place to work and develop your skills. Your knowledge, abilities and positive attitude made you a highly regarded addition to our team, and I am certain that you will make a positive impact on our future. All of us want to make your tenure at this facility as enjoyable and rewarding as possible. Please feel free to ask any questions and express your thoughts and ideas to the staff and senior leadership. Our aim is to create an informal atmosphere and involve everyone in the process of making our facility an exceptional place to work. I look forward to working with you, and would like to welcome you again to our team! Sincerely, Thomas Forney Pensacola TRACON Manager

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Pensacola TRACON Today

The new, state-of-the-art Pensacola TRACON is slated to be completed and occupied in October 2009.

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Pensacola TRACON Organizational Chart

Thomas Forney Air Traffic Manager

VACANT Operations Manager

Julia Cavalier Support Specialist

Cynthia Kersey Secretary

Terry Green Support Specialist

Nancie Allen Front Line Manager – P31

David Baldwin Front Line Manager – P31

Stephen Blankenship Front Line Manager – P31

Connie Owens Training Contractor

Michael Deaton Front Line Manager – P31

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Pensacola Tower Organizational Chart

Stephen Bouchard Air Traffic Manager

Gary Martin Front Line Manager

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Our Expectations of All Employees

Pensacola TRACON leadership team expects all employees to:

• Come to work, be on time • Be prepared – mentally and physically • Understand leave policy and manage your leave appropriately • Be cooperative and professional • Treat people with respect and dignity • Take initiative • Be accountable • Lead by example – be a good role model • Do not tolerate or engage in any form of harassment or discrimination • Actively participate in training • Know your airspace and systems, know your equipment • Use prescribed phraseology/correct facility and equipment names • Follow rules and procedures • Be open to feedback – provide honest information • Be an effective team member

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Policies

Reporting for Duty

The first day you should arrive at the facility at 7:00 a.m. When you first report to the facility for orientation and classroom training you will work what is referred to as an administrative shift. These shifts last eight and one-half hours with a one-half hour unpaid lunch break. You will be permitted to leave the facility for lunch. Your shift starting time while in class may be different but typically it will be 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. In the event you have any anticipated delays in your arrival or need more information regarding initial training please contact Cyndee Kersey, Secretary, at 850-444-5700

Hours of Duty

Once your classroom training has been completed you will be assigned to a Front Line Manager and a set of days off. Controller’s work a fixed days off schedule and typically you will work one week of day shifts followed by a week of night shifts. Typically trainees do not work midnight shifts until they are near the completion of their training. Once assigned to On-The-Job training you will work an eight-hour shift. The facility has a break room with vending machines; however, there is not a cafeteria. Most controllers bring a meal to work. Refrigerators and freezer space is available in the break room.

Security

You are the eyes and ears and a key part of security at Pensacola TRACON. If you see someone without an FAA ID badge ask them if they need help and stay with them until they are escorted to the person they need to see. Your supervisor is your initial point of contact for security questions.

Building Access

Facility access is controlled with access cards. On your first day the secretary will meet you at the door.

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FAA ID Cards

After reporting you will be issued an FAA ID badge and access card. Your ID must be displayed, between the neck and belt, at all times while on FAA property.

Guests and Visitors

Visitors are to be limited to those with a “need-to-know” or a purpose for visiting only. CPC’s from other facilities, FAA or military, pilots or ground vehicle operators, employees’ relatives or friends, to be controlled by the employee. No visitors under the age of sixteen except employee’s relatives. Any international visitors require a two-week minimum notice. All visitors must have a picture ID and display a visitors ID issued by the guard.

Cell Phones

Cellular telephones are permitted in some areas of the building. Operating a cell phone is strictly prohibited in the operational quarters due to interference issues. We ask that you operate your cell phone on silent/vibrate mode while in the classroom.

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Local Area Information

Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the county seat of Escambia County. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,255 and as of 2006, the estimated population was 53,248.

However, the Pensacola metropolitan area, comprising Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, had a population of 439,877. Pensacola is a sea port on Pensacola Bay, which connects to the Gulf of Mexico. A large United States Navy Naval Air Station Pensacola, the first in the United States, is located southwest of Pensacola (near the community of Warrington) and is home to the Blue Angels flight demonstration team and the National Museum of Naval Aviation. The main campus of the University of West Florida is situated north of the city center.

Pensacola is nicknamed "The City of Five Flags" due to the five governments that have flown flags over it during its history: the flags of Spain (Castile), France, Great Britain, the Confederate States of America, and the United States. Other nicknames include "World's Whitest Beaches" (due to the white sand prevalent along beaches in the Florida panhandle), "Cradle of Naval Aviation" (the National Museum of Naval Aviation is located at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, home of the legendary Blue Angels), "Western Gate to the Sunshine State," "America's First Settlement," "Emerald Coast," "Redneck Riviera," and "Red Snapper Capital of the World."

Pensacola, Florida has a rich and colorful history dating nearly 450 years, being the first European settlement in the continental United States (1559) and controlled by five countries. Pensacola's location has caused great turmoil, with many buildings destroyed by wars, and by numerous major hurricanes. The location, south of the original British colonies, and as the dividing line between French Louisiana and Spanish Florida, along the Perdido River, has caused the possession of the city to change multiple times. Pensacola has been under the possession of the Spanish, French, British, United States and Confederate States, and has remained a part of the United States since the end of the American Civil War. Along with wars, numerous hurricanes have been a major factor in Pensacola history.

Pensacola: site of 1698 settlement near Fort Barrancas is marked "X" (above left end of Santa Rosa Island).

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Early exploration of Pensacola Bay (called Polonza or Ochuse) spanned decades, with Ponce de León (1513), Pánfilo de Narváez (1528), and Hernando de Soto (1539) plus others charting the area. Due to prior exploration, the first settlement of Pensacola was large, landing on August 15, 1559, and led by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano with over 1,400 people on 11 ships from Vera Cruz, Mexico. However, weeks later, the colony was decimated by a hurricane on September 19, 1559, which killed hundreds, sank five ships, grounded a caravel, and ruined supplies. The 1,000 survivors divided to relocate/resupply the settlement, but due to famine and attacks, the effort was abandoned in 1561. About 240 people sailed to Santa Elena (today's Parris Island, South Carolina), but another storm hit there, so they sailed to Cuba and scattered. The remaining 50 at Pensacola were taken back to Mexico, and the Viceroy's advisers concluded northwest Florida was too dangerous to settle, for 135 years.

Pensacola was permanently reestablished by the Spanish in 1696 on the mainland, near Fort Barrancas (see map), and became the largest city in Florida, as the capital of the British colony of West Florida in 1763. Another major hurricane devastated the settlement in 1722, causing the French occupation to evacuate, and the Spanish returned.

The Spanish built three presidios in Pensacola:

• Presidio Santa Maria de Galve (1698-1719): the presidio included fort San Carlos de Austria (east of present Fort Barrancas) and a village with church;

• Presidio Isla de Santa Rosa (1722-1752): this next presidio was on Santa Rosa Island near the site of present Fort Pickens, but hurricanes battered the island in 1741 and 1752, and the presidio was closed and moved to the mainland;

• Presidio San Miguel de Panzacola (1754-1763): the final presidio was about five miles east of the first presidio, over in the present-day historic district of downtown Pensacola, named from "Panzacola" (of Spain).

From 1763, the British went back to the mainland area of fort San Carlos de Barrancas, building the Royal Navy Redoubt, and Pensacola became the capital of the 14th British colony, West Florida. After Spain joined the American Revolution late, in 1779, the Spanish captured East Florida and West Florida, regaining it from (1781-1819) in the 1781 Battle of Pensacola. In an 1819 Transcontinental Treaty (Adams-Onis), Spain renounced its claims to West Florida and ceded East Florida to the U.S.

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(US$5 million). In 1821, with Andrew Jackson as provisional governor, Pensacola became part of the United States.

St. Michael's Cemetery was established in the 18th Century at a location which at the time was on the distant eastern outskirts of the city. Initially owned by the Church of St. Michael, it is now owned and managed by St. Michael's Cemetery Foundation of Pensacola, Inc. Preliminary studies indicate that there are over 3200 marked burials as well as a large number unmarked.

Public primary and secondary education schools in Pensacola are administered by the Escambia County School District. The current superintendent of schools for Escambia County is Jim Paul. The University of West Florida, which resides north of the city, is the primary tertiary school in the area. UWF also has the largest library in the region, the John C. Pace Library.

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Online Resources

Local Area Resources

www.pensacola.com www.visitpensacola.com www.ci.pensacola.fl.us

Chamber of Commerce

www.pensacolachamber.com

Local News

www.pnj.com

City Data

www.city-data.com/city/Pensacola-Florida.html

Universities and colleges

• University of West Florida • Pensacola Junior College • Troy University - Pensacola • Pensacola Christian College (not accredited)

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Pensacola High School

High schools in the City of Pensacola

Escambia County School District

• East Hill Christian School • Escambia High School • Pensacola School Of Liberal Arts • Pensacola Catholic High School • Pensacola High School (Ranked as the 8th best high school in America by

Newsweek magazine in 2004.) • Washington High School • Pine Forest High School • Pensacola Christian Academy • Tate High School • West Florida High School of Advanced Technology

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Festivals and holidays

Major holidays in Pensacola include Memorial Day (Memorial Day Weekend), Mardi Gras, and the Fiesta of Five Flags. Celebrations of note in Pensacola are the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival, the Seafood Festival, Crawfish Festival, Gay Pride(LGBT), (Memorial Day Weekend), The King Mackerel and Cobia Tournament, Florida Springfest (although canceled in 2006 through 2008), Gracefest (a Christian music festival), Lobsterfest, University of West Florida Festival On The Green, The Diesel Dee Diesel Dyow Attempts, the Bushwhacker Festival and the Bill Fishing Tournament.

Historic Seville Square and it adjacents parks, Fountain Park and Bartram Park are the sites of most of Pensacola's festivals. In the summer on Thursdays and on the Thursday in the beginning of the Christmas season, the Pensacola Heritage Foundation presents local bands in its famous gazebo for free and very popular concerts. In December the Pensacola Christmas Market is a popular event in Seville Square as is the Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival and Seafood Festival are in the fall and the Cajun Crawfish Festival is in the spring. Festivals in Seville Square is a successful tradition begun by local preservations in the early 60's led by Mary Turner Rule Reed and the Pensacola Heritage Foundaion who started the movement to save and restore this square and Pensacola's old settlement around it.

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At Work in the TRACON

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The Pensacola Area

Two pages should appear here containing the airport diagramand sectional. They have been redacted for posting on the web. They will be available to you in the facility guide you will be provided.

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Photos of the Airport

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Pensacola TRACON/Tower Directory

The following list provides the most commonly used phone numbers within the Pensacola TRACON/Tower facilities:

>> TRACON Secretary Desk >> TRACON Manager’s Office >> TRACON Operations Manager >> TRACON Emergency Contact Number >> TRACON Training Department >> TRACON Facility Fax >> Tower Main >> Tower Manager’s Office >> Tower Frontline Manager’s Office >> Tower Cab >> Tower Fax

(850) 444-5700 (850) 444-5701 (850) 444-5646 (850) 444-5646 (850) 444-5710 (850) 444-5719 (850) 444-5642 (850) 444-5638 (850) 444-5637 (850) 444-5615 (850) 444-5659