CAFB: Connecting to Memphis

COLUMBUS AFB, Miss. - Instructor pilots from the 37th, 41st, 48th and 50th Flying Training Squadron's joined Columbus Air Force Base’s Air Traffic Controllers on a trip to the Memphis Center tower in Tennessee on Nov. 22. Eighteen members of the CAFB team journeyed northward to connect, share knowledge, ask questions and reinforce the connection between CAFB and the center. “I thought it would be good for the pilots and controllers (of CAFB), who work with the controllers at the Memphis Center to get some Q&A’s in, that way we can put names to faces between the two agencies,” said Capt. Julian Kinonen, 14th Operations Support Squadron chief of aerial events. Memphis Center’s airspace coverage overlaps Columbus AFB’s. When the base’s Radar Approach Control and Control Airmen aren’t working this particular airspace, north/NW of Columbus, the Memphis Center controllers are. It takes both agencies working together to execute CAFB’s mission. (Source: CAFB 12/01/19) https://www.columbus.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2029566/columbus-afb-airmen-and-memphis-center-connect/