ZJX controller reported of a search function while using user request evaluation tool had too many a...

Narrative:

In the north area this applies to 53 brunswick; 54 jekyll; 73 allendale and during the midnight shifts they handle all the airports. Specifically during the daytime when an aircraft calls for clearance and the controller has to read the flight plan. There are five airports in the 53 sector that planes can call for clearance from. Nahunta (which almost never happens; jesup; which is infrequent; jekyll which is also infrequent and brunswick and golden isle which are busy. When a flight plan has to be found in the departure list of the user request evaluation tool (uret) there could be dozens of flight plans in there. Sometimes there are so many planes in there that it makes it time consuming to find the one plane you are looking for. Instead of just seeing planes for jesup; nahunta; jekyll; brunswick and golden isle there will be flight plans that populate from mynn; chs; ilm; omn; dab; evb; avl; mia; fll; pbi and numerous other airports. Yes the setting can be changed to show flight plans from departure points. However there are still dozens of other flight plans showing up that the controller will never issue a clearance to. There are even flight plans that show up in the departure list for all 3 of the ocean sectorshave the flight plans from planes departing the airports that are just within the boundaries of the sectors being worked populate in the departure list.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: ZJX Controller reported of a search function while using user request evaluation tool had too many aircraft in the list. Controller reported of seeing too many aircraft and aircraft from other sectors displayed in the list.

Narrative: In the North area this applies to 53 Brunswick; 54 Jekyll; 73 Allendale and during the midnight shifts they handle all the airports. Specifically during the daytime when an aircraft calls for clearance and the controller has to read the flight plan. There are five airports in the 53 sector that planes can call for clearance from. Nahunta (which almost never happens; Jesup; which is infrequent; Jekyll which is also infrequent and Brunswick and Golden Isle which are busy. When a flight plan has to be found in the departure list of the User Request Evaluation Tool (URET) there could be dozens of flight plans in there. Sometimes there are so many planes in there that it makes it time consuming to find the one plane you are looking for. Instead of just seeing planes for Jesup; Nahunta; Jekyll; Brunswick and Golden Isle there will be flight plans that populate from MYNN; CHS; ILM; OMN; DAB; EVB; AVL; MIA; FLL; PBI and numerous other airports. Yes the setting can be changed to show flight plans from departure points. However there are still dozens of other flight plans showing up that the controller will never issue a clearance to. There are even flight plans that show up in the departure list for all 3 of the ocean sectorsHave the flight plans from planes departing the airports that are just within the boundaries of the sectors being worked populate in the departure list.

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	1281364
Time
Date	201507
Local Time Of Day	0001-0600
Place
Locale Reference	ZJX.ARTCC
State Reference	FL
Environment
Light	Night
Person 1
Function	Enroute
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Experience	Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 11
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

ZJX controller reported of a search function while using user request evaluation tool had too many aircraft in the list. Controller reported of seeing too many aircraft and aircraft from other sectors displayed in the list.