You don't think identifying the locations of ASR on the sectional makes life
just a bit easier?


Than what? I don't want ASR, I want ASR services. Not the same.


From this pilot's perspective, looking one place for info is easier
than looking several places.

Explain.


If it takes three seconds to find an airport on the sectional and determine
whether or not there is ASR, and you have to do it seven times (because an
airport without an (R) could still get services), then it takes twenty one
seconds to determine whether services are available at your airport that
doesn't have an (R) but has an airport with an (R) near it, or that it doesn't,
because you can't find an airport with an (R) anywhere near the airport without
the (R) at which you intend to land.

Twenty-one is greater than three.

Redundancy? What has that to do with this discussion?

An idea I through out to the group was to put an (R) at every airport outside
B, C, ARSA which gets services. This would be redundant, since as you said,
the knowledge of the antenna location plus understanding of radar would allow
you to infer that services were available.


And yet you advocate adding clutter to the chart, clutter that provides no
information.


Exploring the idea, and still not sure why I should even pay attention to the
(R) in the first place. I already don't pay attention to the (C).


The R symbol identifies a radar facility, radar facilities provide radar
services. Are you unfamiliar with radar services?


I'm familar with radar. It's sort of like radio waves that bounce off my
airplane in the shape of letters and numbers that show up on a controller's
scope. Doesn't it have something to do with that thingabmabob in the cockpit
that has 1200 on it? (or sometimes 7700, when I have to take a leak) I've
never actually seen the letters fly through the air (I take it they are
invisible) but I have faith that they exist.

Anyway, radar facilities provide services to places without radar facilities.
So, the absence of an (R) doesn't tell me much.

How do you know they're there to be called?

They answer.


You mean TRSA, not ARSA, ARSAs became Class C airspace over ten years ago.


Ok, now you know when I got my certificate.

The differences were explained about ten days ago.

Yes, and this is why I didn't repeat them. But what do I get in an (R)?

Jose



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