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Mlu controller voiced concern regarding recent radar failures noting maintenance can not determine the cause of the outages.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 967652 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201108 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | MLU.TRACON |
| State Reference | LA |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Hercules (C-130) |
| Flight Phase | Climb |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Approach |
| Qualification | Air Traffic Control Fully Certified |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | ATC Issue All Types |
Narrative:
I was working east radar in the TRACON. I had several practice approach aircraft on their own navigation and on radar vectors; as well as an IFR departure and an IFR overflight. The radar scope went black and I tried to separate my aircraft by non-radar procedures and altitude. I was advised to fill out a report on the unsafe situation created by the sudden loss of radar. It has gone out several times since this incident; on each subsequent day. It went out yesterday; though it did come back within several seconds. Maintenance seems to not know what is causing the radar outages. I would not know how to prevent the re-occurrence of this event; save for updating the old radar equipment.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: MLU Controller voiced concern regarding recent RADAR failures noting maintenance can not determine the cause of the outages.
Narrative: I was working East RADAR in the TRACON. I had several practice approach aircraft on their own navigation and on RADAR vectors; as well as an IFR departure and an IFR overflight. The RADAR scope went black and I tried to separate my aircraft by Non-Radar procedures and altitude. I was advised to fill out a report on the unsafe situation created by the sudden loss of RADAR. It has gone out several times since this incident; on each subsequent day. It went out yesterday; though it did come back within several seconds. Maintenance seems to not know what is causing the RADAR outages. I would not know how to prevent the re-occurrence of this event; save for updating the old RADAR equipment.
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.