Narrative:

The aircraft involved checked on frequency with a request for a surveillance approach to runway 7L full stop at dab. I immediately reported his request to the supervisor on duty. Normally the supervisor finds someone to come in and run the surveillance from a different scope. When the aircraft was 5 south of the final I then said again 'my traffic for the surveillance is now 5 miles south of the final.' the supervisor then with attitude asked if I could run the approach because she had no fpl's to do it. I said negative due to traffic volume. She then ordered me to close the s-ar scope and give all 6-7+ aircraft to n-ar to work so I could run the approach. I complied and closed the position. At this point the n-ar scope just doubled his traffic volume to 13+ aircraft. I continued to vector the IFR aircraft throughout the airspace while the n-ar controller dodged my traffic.this is by far the most ludicrous form of power I have seen at this facility. On the second busiest travel day of the year I was forced to close a scope and double the complexity and traffic for another controller. Safety was absolutely compromised during this situation. It took me 5+ minutes after the approach was finished to get a briefing back from the n-ar scope to reopen s-ar because of saturation. 'Unable' is never used at this facility we continue to be forced to work traffic passed the realm of safety.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: DAB TRACON Controller reports of an aircraft that requests a surveillance approach to DAB. Controller advises FLM then is ordered to combine his position to another Controller and then run the surveillance approach.

Narrative: The aircraft involved checked on frequency with a request for a surveillance approach to runway 7L full stop at DAB. I immediately reported his request to the supervisor on duty. Normally the supervisor finds someone to come in and run the surveillance from a different scope. When the aircraft was 5 south of the final I then said again 'My traffic for the surveillance is now 5 miles south of the final.' The supervisor then with attitude asked if I could run the approach because she had no FPL's to do it. I said negative due to traffic volume. She then ordered me to close the S-AR scope and give all 6-7+ aircraft to N-AR to work so I could run the approach. I complied and closed the position. At this point the N-AR scope just doubled his traffic volume to 13+ aircraft. I continued to vector the IFR aircraft throughout the airspace while the N-AR controller dodged my traffic.This is by far the most ludicrous form of power I have seen at this facility. On the second busiest travel day of the year I was forced to close a scope and double the complexity and traffic for another controller. Safety was absolutely compromised during this situation. It took me 5+ minutes after the approach was finished to get a briefing back from the N-AR scope to reopen S-AR because of saturation. 'Unable' is never used at this facility we continue to be forced to work traffic passed the realm of safety.

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.