TRACON controller voiced concern regarding the posting of needed information on the facility ids-4 e...

Narrative:

I was training a developmental on east/M combined. During the position relief briefing I did not hear anything about personnel and equipment working on all surfaces of the field [at this] airport. We took the hand off on a BE35 20 northwest of the airport. We did not advise him of personnel and equipment working on the field. He was descended from 5 thousand to 4 thousand on contact then shortly after descended to 3 thousand feet. Six miles to the northwest of the airport he advised he had the airport in sight and was cleared for the visual approach into the airport. We then advised the pilot to report cancelling IFR with us in the air or on the ground then gave him a frequency change. He cancelled IFR 5 miles northwest of the airport and proceeded inbound to the airport VFR. I never heard him transmit on the CTAF that he was inbound. I recommend that we have better ways of posting this information in our IDS4 system. The information was located in a NOTAM area that very few people know how to access. Important information like this needs to be posted on the very front page where the weather for each airport is located and any pertinent information. This problem needs to be addressed to prevent any further problems.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: TRACON Controller voiced concern regarding the posting of needed information on the facility IDS-4 equipment; noting a recent event when information regarding equipment working near runways was not issued to landing traffic.

Narrative: I was training a developmental on E/M combined. During the position relief briefing I did not hear anything about personnel and equipment working on all surfaces of the field [at this] airport. We took the hand off on a BE35 20 northwest of the airport. We did not advise him of personnel and equipment working on the field. He was descended from 5 thousand to 4 thousand on contact then shortly after descended to 3 thousand feet. Six miles to the northwest of the airport he advised he had the airport in sight and was cleared for the Visual Approach into the airport. We then advised the pilot to report cancelling IFR with us in the air or on the ground then gave him a frequency change. He cancelled IFR 5 miles northwest of the airport and proceeded inbound to the airport VFR. I never heard him transmit on the CTAF that he was inbound. I recommend that we have better ways of posting this information in our IDS4 system. The information was located in a NOTAM area that very few people know how to access. Important information like this needs to be posted on the very front page where the weather for each airport is located and any pertinent information. This problem needs to be addressed to prevent any further problems.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 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	997118
Time
Date	201203
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Bonanza 35
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	None
Person 1
Function	Local Instructor
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Person 2
Function	Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 36 Flight Crew Total 1730 Flight Crew Type 11
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types

TRACON controller voiced concern regarding the posting of needed information on the facility ids-4 equipment; noting a recent event when information regarding equipment working near runways was not issued to landing traffic.