King Air C90 E90
Air Traffic Control Developmental
Training / Qualification
ATC Issue All Types
General None Reported / Taken
Airspace Structure; Human Factors
During a training session I encountered; a high level of traffic. Along with the high level of traffic; a lot of odd ball situations happened that I was unfamiliar with as a trainee. I had multiple aircraft calling me at once; aircraft were coming from all directions with abnormal requests. My trainer was trying to explain to me how to handle the situations that were occurring. As this was happening; I had ZZZ Tower call for a release request. I released him and initiated control on him right away to remind me he was coming off. A few seconds later a VFR aircraft called off of ZZZ1 airport requesting an IFR clearance. Right away I told the King Air to maintain VFR due to an IFR aircraft departing ZZZ. Then I told him to be advised the MOA was active surface to 16;000. While I am waiting to RADAR identify the ZZZ departure I took care of my traffic over two other airports. When I return back to ZZZ and ZZZ1 I made sure both departures had altitude separation and APREQed an IFR clearance in Center's Sector XX's airspace because the King Air was already close to Center's Sector XX airspace. My trainer noticed right away that the King Air had 3 flight plans on file and we couldn't get him to tag up on the ARTS so he had to go in and remove strips on the other 2 flight plans. Then it still wouldn't tag up so he had to mess around with the ARTS to get him to tag up. I got the King Air on RADAR and his tag to tag up and RADAR identified him and gave him his IFR clearance and to maintain 9.000 for traffic. The ZZZ departure was in front of him at this time. Right away I handed him off to Center and when Center took the hand off we noticed the King Air was right on the line of the MOA. I estimated about 2 miles east. Unfortunately it was too late to correct his course. Center then called us and made sure we knew the MOA was active and we apologized and said yes we did. After this happened; I still had other situations going on in my airspace that needed to be attended too. After all other conflicts were resolved we were relieved by another Controller and right away called Center. Center said that there was no flying going on at the time so there was no harm done at that time. I recommend requesting an assist when a high level of traffic volume occurs like it did. Since I didn't have an assist; my trainer was doing most of the assist duties and may have not had his full attention on me. Also; I feel he should have overridden me instead of explaining how to do things since it was so complex; and then explain to me after the situation. I did learn a lot with this training session. Hopefully in the future we can get some more simulations with more unfamiliar situations that could happen but rarely do.
During a skills check on R1; a BE9L departed ZZZ1 airport which is in close proximity to a MOA. The developmental identified the aircraft and issued an IFR clearance and shipped to Center. The aircraft did not enter the MOA but did not have appropriate separation. Aircraft was about 1 1/2 miles from the MOA. Center called to ask if we had the information that the MOA was hot and we did. The clearance; RADAR identification and frequency change happened so fast I did not have time to correct it. Center advised there were no aircraft flying in the MOA at that time. There was no loss of separation between aircraft. I could have taken over the sector instead of trying to explain to the developmental what should be done. It may have been too busy to try and teach at that time. As the instructor/supervisor; I should have taken over the position rather than try to let the developmental work it and I should have called for an assist.
TRACON Developmental described an airspace incursion event during a training session when traffic and complexity increased beyond his/her capabilities.