Narrative:

We departed scottsdale and were just climbing through four thousand feet for an assigned altitude of 5000 feet when ATC advised us of converging traffic. We were looking and saw the target on TCAS; which showed him to be closing; and only a few hundred feet above us. I advised my sic who was the pilot flying that we should slow the climb; which he started to do; then we got an RA to monitor vertical speed. We stopped climbing; and then the pilot of the other aircraft told ATC he had us in sight. We advised ATC that we had an RA that we responded to. He then advised us to continue the climb; the other pilot had us in sight; and to turn left to a southerly heading. We were both watching the TCAS as the assigned turn was once again heading us directly into the path of the other aircraft. The other pilot questioned ATC as to whether 'that jet is still climbing?' since he apparently also saw that we were again on an ATC assigned collision course for the second time within one minute or so. We once again decided not to climb (we were still at about 4500 ft at this time. The other aircraft was at 5000.) when we got another monitor vertical speed RA. We then got visual contact with the other aircraft and were able to climb and maintain visual separation. About 3 minutes later ATC advised us that the other aircraft was at our one o'clock position (which was now descending for phx and was about 400-500 ft below us) would be making a left turn in front of us. When he did so we got another RA but we had visual contact with him. We believe that this event occurred due to extremely poor judgment on the part of the ATC controller. In the first instance he should have had us stop our climb at 4000 ft until we were clear of the conflict. Then he should not have given us a turn instruction which immediately put us on a second collision course with the same aircraft. We felt that this particular controller was essentially incompetent to let this event occur in this way. The third RA was not so critical since we had him in sight and we were now in a diverging altitude status. I really wanted to call the facility to lodge a complaint; because it really was a horrible piece of air traffic control! I am sure the other pilot was equally as concerned and flustered as we were.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Corporate jet departure from SDL; enroute to IWA with P50; experienced multiple conflict events with ATC reported traffic; reporter questioned ATC's actions regarding both involved aircraft.

Narrative: We departed Scottsdale and were just climbing through four thousand feet for an assigned altitude of 5000 feet when ATC advised us of converging traffic. We were looking and saw the target on TCAS; which showed him to be closing; and only a few hundred feet above us. I advised my SIC who was the pilot flying that we should slow the climb; which he started to do; then we got an RA to monitor vertical speed. We stopped climbing; and then the pilot of the other aircraft told ATC he had us in sight. We advised ATC that we had an RA that we responded to. He then advised us to continue the climb; the other pilot had us in sight; and to turn left to a southerly heading. We were both watching the TCAS as the assigned turn was once again heading us directly into the path of the other aircraft. The other pilot questioned ATC as to whether 'that jet is still climbing?' since he apparently also saw that we were again on an ATC assigned collision course for the second time within one minute or so. We once again decided not to climb (we were still at about 4500 FT at this time. The other aircraft was at 5000.) when we got another monitor vertical speed RA. We then got visual contact with the other aircraft and were able to climb and maintain visual separation. About 3 minutes later ATC advised us that the other aircraft was at our one o'clock position (which was now descending for PHX and was about 400-500 FT below us) would be making a left turn in front of us. When he did so we got another RA but we had visual contact with him. We believe that this event occurred due to extremely poor judgment on the part of the ATC controller. In the first instance he should have had us stop our climb at 4000 FT until we were clear of the conflict. Then he should not have given us a turn instruction which immediately put us on a second collision course with the same aircraft. We felt that this particular Controller was essentially incompetent to let this event occur in this way. The third RA was not so critical since we had him in sight and we were now in a diverging altitude status. I really wanted to call the facility to lodge a complaint; because it really was a horrible piece of air traffic control! I am sure the other pilot was equally as concerned and flustered as we were.

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.