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"Donald Ramsey" wrote in message ... When radar fails, do ATC folks have at their avail the last recorded positions of all aircraft or a computed projection (coast?), or do all the screens just go black? :O Depends on the facility and the type of failure. Is it an actual radar failure or is it a computer failure? Single or multi radar site system? You can have a computer failure and still have radar data available on a backup system. You can lose a radar site in a multi site system with minimal impact. An approach control may lose the secondary radar but still have primary radar, it may be able to pull up an ARTCC radar site as a backup. When some TRACONs lose their radar the overlying ARTCC takes their airspace. I don't doubt that most controllers can revert back to non-radar procedures and successfully handle traffic, I'm just curious how the transition would occur. Many controllers can't revert back to non-radar procedures because they never learned them to begin with. |
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"tscottme" wrote in message ... So you recommend being the first aircraft to declare an emergency when the failure happens? ;-) What would you expect that to do for you? |
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