D01 controller reports of problems associated with stars equipment not working correctly and having ...

Narrative:

During an busy arrival rush weather caused a sudden shift from visual approaches to triple simultaneous ILS approaches. We do this a lot at denver and should be no problem. The new stars radar and lack of training caused several losses of legal separation and safety issues. Several controllers were rapidly shuffled from on position to another to open the mo positions. Position relief briefing were instructed to be short and the 2 minute overlap was waived. The mo positions were not 'opened' and the controllers were unable to look at and data blocks and therefore could not open. The controllers and the flm did not know how to fix the situation due to lack of training and understanding. Luckily a 'sme' happened to be in the room and even they struggled to get the position working. About half a dozen aircraft illegally flew an unmonitored; side-by-side; ILS approach. The tm-in-training (and soon to be flm) thought that nothing was wrong with the operation.the training for stars has caused hundreds of problems that have been logged and many more that have not. Everything from not being able to amend and aircraft's type to the radar scope turning off entirely are causing safety problems that do not seem to be taken seriously. It seems like 'they'll figure it out' was a huge part of unveiling stars. This is dangerous and today proved that. Better training and equipment fixes are needed.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: D01 Controller reports of problems associated with STARS equipment not working correctly and having aircraft on final with less than standard separation.

Narrative: During an busy arrival rush weather caused a sudden shift from Visual Approaches to Triple Simultaneous ILS approaches. We do this a lot at Denver and should be no problem. The new STARS RADAR and lack of training caused several losses of legal separation and safety issues. Several controllers were rapidly shuffled from on position to another to open the MO positions. Position relief briefing were instructed to be short and the 2 minute overlap was waived. The MO positions were not 'opened' and the controllers were unable to look at and data blocks and therefore could not open. The controllers and the FLM did not know how to fix the situation due to lack of training and understanding. Luckily a 'SME' happened to be in the room and even they struggled to get the position working. About half a dozen aircraft illegally flew an unmonitored; side-by-side; ILS approach. The TM-in-training (and soon to be FLM) thought that nothing was wrong with the operation.The training for STARS has caused hundreds of problems that have been logged and many more that have not. Everything from not being able to amend and aircraft's type to the RADAR scope turning off entirely are causing safety problems that do not seem to be taken seriously. It seems like 'they'll figure it out' was a huge part of unveiling STARS. This is dangerous and today proved that. Better training and equipment fixes are needed.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1219334
Time
Date	201410
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	DEN.Airport
State Reference	CO
Environment
Light	Night
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Any Unknown or Unlisted Aircraft Manufacturer
Person 1
Function	Approach
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Experience	Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 4
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Conflict Airborne Conflict Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

D01 controller reports of problems associated with stars equipment not working correctly and having aircraft on final with less than standard separation.