ZLA controller relayed concerns expressed by flight crews overflying a solar farm south of las. Flig...

Narrative:

There is a solar farm south of las vegas which is in sector 6 and sector 37's airspace. Daily; during the late morning and early afternoon hours we get complaints from pilots of aircraft flying from the northeast to the southwest about the brightness of this solar farm. They usually ask us what it is because they don't know. On this particular morning; an air carrier complained about the brightness and reiterated that it was 'nearly blinding.' I reported this to management and was told that they were going to do nothing about it. They then suggested that I tell the pilot to report it through the safety reporting system that they have and to report it myself. I have no idea what can be done about this situation; but being a passenger on an aircraft that flew through this airspace and saw it for myself; I would say that something needs to be done. It is extremely bright and distracting.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: ZLA Controller relayed concerns expressed by flight crews overflying a solar farm south of LAS. Flight crews have noted the facility causes nearly blinding reflection.

Narrative: There is a solar farm south of Las Vegas which is in Sector 6 and Sector 37's airspace. Daily; during the late morning and early afternoon hours we get complaints from pilots of aircraft flying from the northeast to the southwest about the brightness of this solar farm. They usually ask us what it is because they don't know. On this particular morning; an air carrier complained about the brightness and reiterated that it was 'nearly blinding.' I reported this to Management and was told that they were going to do nothing about it. They then suggested that I tell the pilot to report it through the safety reporting system that they have and to report it myself. I have no idea what can be done about this situation; but being a passenger on an aircraft that flew through this airspace and saw it for myself; I would say that something needs to be done. It is extremely bright and distracting.

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	1108698
Time
Date	201308
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZLA.ARTCC
State Reference	CA
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Enroute
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Events
Anomaly	ATC Issue All Types Inflight Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

ZLA controller relayed concerns expressed by flight crews overflying a solar farm south of las. Flight crews have noted the facility causes nearly blinding reflection.