Very Well Done

[BFG]

I was fortunate to enjoy the early Christmas present of the Western Expansion preview just now. Flew piston the entire way, departing the KSKC Bravo, flying w/o advisories for a stop at 36U, then picked up advisories from SLC Center to KPUC, dropped them for a stop there, picked them up again enroute to KCNY, handed off to Denver Center along the way, before finishing VFR. Delta flight passing overhead at FL 360 on the same freq along the way, and hearing traffic from all over the West. It was great. Well done to the entire PE team - the controllers who were rocking the new routes and freqs tonight, and the team that must have worked so hard behind the scenes to make it a reality.

[stevekirks]

I must have been on the naughty list...

Steve

[Keith Smith]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. That was just a beta test for a relatively small audience (we couldn't do a full scale announcement for a time-limited test, the traffic would've been too high and we wouldn't have been able to collect our test points).

The actual launch of Western US is still Dec 27.

[Keith Smith]

I must have been on the naughty list...

Steve

Not at all, I just picked some people and invited them (most were streamers), knowing that it would generate some traffic, plus some people who would find out about it by watching the streams and then join in. It was a compromise between a 100% private invite and a full blown public announcement. As much as I would have loved to pre announce it to everyone, it would not have been a good outcome for anyone.

Don't sweat it...there's just 7 days to go.