Narrative:

I was conducting training on D91. Aircraft X was eastbound at FL410 filed on J65 through white sands missile range. Flying through white sands is acceptable on J65 if restricted areas 5107F and 5107G are inactive. Earlier this week we did away with our restricted area strips that were printed through the NAS and we now rely on uret to get the restricted information. My trainee looked in uret and R5107F and R5107G were showing inactive. I went over to D90 and looked for myself to see what uret was showing. The R90 controller asked me what I was doing and I asked him if white sands missile range was inactive. He said no it was active. He then told me that there is a problem with uret and it shows two different statuses for white sands. He also showed me a memo that was laying on the supervisors desk that I was never briefed on that says if R5107BL is showing active then R5107F and R5107G are also active even though R5107F and R5107G will show inactive in uret. Ever since we did away with our restricted area strips in the NAS we have identified several areas that are unreliable and I feel like I don't know what is active and what is not. I also feel that I don't know how to find out when the status of the restricted areas will change. I spoke my feelings to management when this all took place and I was told that I will need to get used to the change. Our specialty has numerous restricted areas that affect our traffic constantly and I need to know their status. Recommendation; we need to go back to printing the restricted area strips through NAS until the uret problems are solved. If a problem with the uret status is identified I need to be briefed before I take over any sector in my area. That briefing was never done. I just found out by chance.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: ZAB Controller voiced concern regarding conflicting information regarding restricted airspace activation; claiming URET information was inaccurate and further suggesting former strip procedures be continued until URET is fixed.

Narrative: I was conducting training on D91. Aircraft X was eastbound at FL410 filed on J65 through White Sands Missile Range. Flying through White Sands is acceptable on J65 if restricted areas 5107F and 5107G are inactive. Earlier this week we did away with our restricted area strips that were printed through the NAS and we now rely on URET to get the restricted information. My trainee looked in URET and R5107F and R5107G were showing inactive. I went over to D90 and looked for myself to see what URET was showing. The R90 Controller asked me what I was doing and I asked him if White Sands Missile Range was inactive. He said no it was ACTIVE. He then told me that there is a problem with URET and it shows two different statuses for White Sands. He also showed me a memo that was laying on the Supervisors desk that I was never briefed on that says if R5107BL is showing active then R5107F and R5107G are also active even though R5107F and R5107G will show inactive in URET. Ever since we did away with our restricted area strips in the NAS we have identified several areas that are unreliable and I feel like I don't know what is active and what is not. I also feel that I don't know how to find out when the status of the restricted areas will change. I spoke my feelings to Management when this all took place and I was told that I will need to get used to the change. Our specialty has numerous restricted areas that affect our traffic constantly and I need to know their status. Recommendation; we need to go back to printing the restricted area strips through NAS until the URET problems are solved. If a problem with the URET status is identified I need to be briefed before I take over any sector in my area. That briefing was never done. I just found out by chance.

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.