Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 8
Workload; Communication Breakdown; Confusion; Distraction; Fatigue; Time Pressure
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Air Traffic Control Separated Traffic; Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance
Procedure; Weather; Staffing; Human Factors; Airspace Structure
I was working R-76.  The AR's were closed due to weather and there was weather in the middle of the state; forcing a majority of the center's traffic through the South area.  Most altitudes had chop causing most pilots to request ride reports and different altitudes.  Sectors 76 and 67 had full ACLs (at one point 67 had over 50 aircraft on their list) and were 'red' straight across the board.  I was working with both a D-side and tracker. The aircraft that were re-routed off the Atlantic Routes were coming over with bad routes (CRG-ILM or CRG-SAV-ILM etc) and required full route clearances to miss the warning areas and comply with LOA/SOP.  I also had to issue clearances to two southbound aircraft (I believe [ACR X] was one of the aircraft) who had OMN direct SJU and OMN direct MKJS.  I assume these slipped through the cracks at 67 because they were just as busy as me.  I have no idea how many other re-routes from Washington they did issue while covered up in traffic like I was doing from Miami.  The Supervisor was notified early in the session that issuing FRC's to the AR aircraft was causing the workload in the sector to become almost unbearable.  He told our TMU at least 2 times over the course of the next two hours that MIA needed to ensure the routes were issued off the ground.  When I finally got off position (after more that 2 hours 15 min); Miami was still sending aircraft northbound with SAV-ILM routing; and it seemed the volume was not reduced at all (the ACL was still full). TMU needed to take a more aggressive role in protecting the integrity of the sector.  Volume needed to be reduced and the re-routes needed to be issued from Miami Center.  The situation went on long enough that I have no doubt aircraft I was re-routing in the air were sitting on the ground when we first asked for routes to be fixed.  I see no reason while those planes could not have been given a good route from Clearance Delivery before they ever left.
Enroute Controller complains about overloaded sector due to weather and having to issue amended clearances while aircraft depart over 2 hours later on incorrect routings.