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Victor Airways on Approach Control Radar?
The other day I queried an approach controller to find out how well we
are doing tracking the airway centerline. He said his radar scope does not show the airways. I was surprised by this. Is this normal? I know that Center controllers have airways on their radar, but it appears that Approach control does not have airways. Is this true? |
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Newps wrote:
Andrew Sarangan wrote: The other day I queried an approach controller to find out how well we are doing tracking the airway centerline. He said his radar scope does not show the airways. I was surprised by this. Is this normal? I know that Center controllers have airways on their radar, but it appears that Approach control does not have airways. Is this true? We have the airways out at the edge of the scope, about the last 5 miles or so. There's no way to tell if you are on the centerline. When the VAN VOR was temporarily out of service a year or so ago, I asked the Myrtle Beach(?) approach controller if he could provide radar monitoring of our course along the airway. He said he could, and a few miles out he volunteered that we seemed to be tracking the airway correctly. Of course, I have no idea what he was actually looking at or seeing. Dave Remove SHIRT to reply directly. |
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"Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message om... The other day I queried an approach controller to find out how well we are doing tracking the airway centerline. He said his radar scope does not show the airways. I was surprised by this. Is this normal? I know that Center controllers have airways on their radar, but it appears that Approach control does not have airways. Is this true? Generally, airways are not depicted in their entirety. They are not shown in the center portion of the display to reduce clutter, but it doesn't take too much imagination to mentally connect the segments that are shown. |
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