Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Communication Breakdown
ATC Issue All Types; Airspace Violation All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
General None Reported / Taken
Procedure
Returned from break and was relieving the Ocean East D-Side. ACR X was in hand off mode to Miami Center and deviating over 20 miles south of course. I asked D-Side if he needed a point out to Key West Sector and the R-Side advised she was on line with Miami coordinating. So his replied was handled and left. Miami Controller advised R-Side W174 active and R79 advised that we did not even show it scheduled. Then R79 asked the A319 if able left 10 degrees left turn and pilot responded no. I advised Houston Missions who did not show W174 active. Advised W174 was active and Miami Missions had not advised Houston Missions who had not advised us. I advised that the A319 was unable turn due to weather and we needed airspace capped immediately. I recommend Airspace that [was] originally part of Miami Center at 8600W be returned to Miami Center. It should have never been assigned to Houston Center and is fraught with danger due to Military Airspace and lack of communication between Centers and causes both coordination with airspace and radio and radar communication errors. This is not the first occurrence over Military Airspace activity and numerous times we are not advised of RADAR outages either.
Aircraft was deviating east for weather. I was informed after off the sector by another Controller that W174 was active and the aircraft was in it. I relieved the Controller before me and he didn't advise of the airspace being hot. We show this airspace as active in real time; however we sometimes get calls from Miami that it's hot. We need to proceduralize the call when the airspace goes hot and/or cold.
ZHU Controller described a restricted area incursion when intra and inter facility coordination was incomplete.