Cle controller reports of departing aircraft without radar services being provided 2 minutes apart. ...

Attributes
ACN	1202402
Time
Date	201409
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	CLE.Airport
State Reference	OH
Environment
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Any Unknown or Unlisted Aircraft Manufacturer
Flight Phase	Initial Climb
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Other / Unknown
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Experience	Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 19
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Clearance Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

Today the cle primary radar went OTS with the backup qdb radar site being OTS for numerous weeks (making cle on ATC alert) resulting in cle going ATC zero. After what has to be considerable unnecessary delays to getting the aircraft that were taxied out airborne I was told to depart successive aircraft off ry 6L on runway heading and climb to 5000 feet and to depart them 2 minutes apart. There is no non-radar rule that covers this procedure. There was no call from ZOB indicating either longitudinal or lateral separation had been accomplished between departures.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CLE Controller reports of departing aircraft without radar services being provided 2 minutes apart. Controller was not aware of any rule in the 7100.65 that made this legal.

Narrative: Today the CLE primary radar went OTS with the backup QDB radar site being OTS for numerous weeks (making CLE on ATC Alert) resulting in CLE going ATC zero. After what has to be considerable unnecessary delays to getting the aircraft that were taxied out airborne I was told to depart successive aircraft off RY 6L on runway heading and climb to 5000 feet and to depart them 2 minutes apart. There is no non-radar rule that covers this procedure. There was no call from ZOB indicating either longitudinal or lateral separation had been accomplished between departures.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.

Cle controller reports of departing aircraft without radar services being provided 2 minutes apart. Controller was not aware of any rule in the 7100.65 that made this legal.