Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Situational Awareness; Workload
ATC Issue All Types; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Inflight Event / Encounter CFTT / CFIT
Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance
Aircraft; Human Factors; Procedure
I just took over R5. There were a lot of things to be done. Right away; ITO Approach called me and told me that aircraft X; an SR20; departure from ITO; was not going to be able to make the MOCA of 6;500 FT at OKALA; can he just RADAR vector him? I asked him what his MVA is because mine is 6;000 FT. He said 5;400 FT. I told him to RADAR vector him until our boundary on a 310 heading since it's a lower MVA. When ITO called me back at the boundary; aircraft was above 6;000 FT (my MIA) I told him to switch him to me. As soon as I got him; I told him to turn left to join V22 to V2. He read it back correctly. He was less than 1 mile right of V22 when I gave him that clearance. I was busy with vectoring for practice approaches at KOA with jets; when I noticed aircraft's MSAW went off. He was left of course and I advised him. He was now in my 8;000 FT MIA. He said that he did go to V22 and now is going to V2. I restated that he was cleared via V22 to join V2 and to climb quickly. When he leveled at 8;000 FT I cleared him direct UPP. It was busy on R5. I needed to tell the Supervisor to open up my D-Side. They needed to juggle a few bodies to get me the D-Side. Another problem is with the pilot. If he knew on the ground that he was not going to make the MOCA; he should have informed us or requested a route on the ground that he could comply with. I think if I wasn't as rushed; I may have given a more thorough clearance to ITO Approach to issue to aircraft rather than tell him to switch him to me at the boundary. This worked; but I may have spent more time to give him more attention to make sure he understood his clearance. I thought he did; but he really didn't. If I had a D-Side to have dealt with that coordination with ITO; it might have been more clear and less on the fly; while trying to deal with my practice approaches and multiple air carriers flying in to KOA.
HCF Controller described a below MVA event resulting from an apparent aircraft performance issue. The reporter noted that this performance limitation should have been reported by the flight crew before the flight.