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A80 controller voiced concern regarding the use of the mge ASR-8 radar equipment during atl ASR-9 outages; claiming data tags jump and air speeds are unreliable; suggesting ILS procedures be used in lieu of triple runway visual approach procedures.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 831700 |
| Time | |
| Date | 200904 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | A80.TRACON |
| State Reference | GA |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Approach |
| Qualification | Air Traffic Control Fully Certified Flight Crew Instrument |
| Experience | Flight Crew Total 500 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Other Radar Equipment Anomaly |
Narrative:
With the atl ASR-9 radar otm; controllers are required to use the mge ASR-8 radar system. While working the south final to the world's busiest airport; the radar presentation was almost unusable. ARTS tags jumped from parallel finals to my final; speeds were indicating 250 KTS on one hit; then 140 KTS on another hit; then 180 KTS on another hit. We should stop triple-va's while the atl ASR-9 radar is otm or out of service. We are not allowed to run simultaneous ILS approaches; even to two runways. This makes no sense seeing that ILS's are much more controlled than visual approaches.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: A80 controller voiced concern regarding the use of the MGE ASR-8 RADAR equipment during ATL ASR-9 outages; claiming data tags jump and air speeds are unreliable; suggesting ILS procedures be used in lieu of triple runway visual approach procedures.
Narrative: With the ATL ASR-9 Radar OTM; controllers are required to use the MGE ASR-8 Radar System. While working the south final to the world's busiest airport; the radar presentation was almost unusable. ARTS tags jumped from parallel finals to my final; speeds were indicating 250 KTS on one hit; then 140 KTS on another hit; then 180 KTS on another hit. We should stop Triple-VA's while the ATL ASR-9 Radar is OTM or out of service. We are not allowed to run simultaneous ILS approaches; even to two runways. This makes no sense seeing that ILS's are much more controlled than visual approaches.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 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.