Marco Leon wrote:

Hey Newps, care to share if and/or how the FAA tracks the number of
approaches you work? I'm curious.

We keep track of the flight strips. IFR aircraft get flight strips
printed out by the computer. VFR planes shooting practice approaches
get the same type of strip but it is handwritten. It is counted as an
IFR operation for traffic count purposes. Each approach that does not
terminate in a full stop is a two count, a full stop is a one count. We
put up and down arrows in the box where the arrival time normally goes
to signify to the guy who counts the traffic to count that one as two.
If an IFR arrival does not land for any reason then the same thing
happens, an up and down arrow gets put on the strip and we request
another one from the computer or hand write it. VFR aircraft are
similar except we use half strips, the right half of the strip is cut
off. All of this data gets entered into a computer at about 10 pm each
night and gets automatically transmitted to DC each morning about 2 am.
In a couple weeks we are switching over to a new computer system where
the muckety mucks will be able to look at any facility and see who is at
work, who is on what position, how much traffic there is, etc. All in
real time.