At Jacksonville Center, we have six areas and 42 operational sectors - between six and nine sectors per area. In order for a center to manage its airspace efficiently, it is subdivided into areas of specialization, and then each area is again divided into sectors.
Fifty percent of our traffic is air carrier, thirty percent general aviation, and twenty percent is military. Center-wide, our average daily traffic count is approximately 8600 operations, with our peak traffic being over 9770 operations in one day. We also control the airspace over twenty military airports and about 225 civilian airports. Our northeastern boundary is close to Wilmington, North Carolina, our western is near Mobile, Alabama, our southern lies just north of Orlando, and we are responsible for parts of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. This center is responsible for approximately 160,000 square miles of airspace - airspace that covers parts of five states: Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina.
Centers can "own" airspace from the surface up to and including 60,000 feet. (Jax to Lax example) Approach controls (towers) have a much smaller area of control, usually about fifty miles or so within the vicinity of a major airport, and a maximum altitude of 23,000 feet. We are the controllers that talk to the pilots of your flights "in between" your departure and destination airports.
Jacksonville Center is one of twenty domestic enroute air traffic control centers.
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