Radar fault grounds commercial flights nationwide - reports

[HamiltonWest]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/69641779/ ... e--reports
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news ... d=11469866

[Ian Warren]

That was my fault .. Nah ... really not , I'm sure they were just in there to make the noise complaint Dorks a day off and maybe just fly around the targeted homes ..... COOL

[Lindstrim]

If you read their FB page, they seem to think it relates to INS/GPS systems and SMART routes.

[Ian Warren]

If you read their FB page, they seem to think it relates to INS/GPS systems and SMART routes.

I know the exact hold up ... the Twit 'Colin Craig' going on about airlines spraying deathly sprays ..

[mfraser]

Typical misinformation from the media. I won't go into specifics but I laughed when I read the term "Pilots would have lost all radar communication....". It was the Air Traffic Controllers that lost the radar feeds (along with a number of other vital systems). We don't use radar for "communication" either.

[Ian Warren]

Typical misinformation from the media. I won't go into specifics but I laughed when I read the term "Pilots would have lost all radar communication....". It was the Air Traffic Controllers that lost the radar feeds (along with a number of other vital systems). We don't use radar for "communication" either.

Great to hear the feedback from the , you real guys in the loop ....... and not a loopy Colin Craig

[Lindstrim]

Yep pink pages time, I'm just lucky that I wasn't working.

[Ian Warren]

Yep pink pages time, I'm just lucky that I wasn't working.

... Some Countries Do have them ... , both the glitch and the gleek

[towerguy]

LMAO

picked a good time to have a week off !!!

[cowpatz]

Was ADS-B still working?
Was it Primary or SSR that was lost?

[Lindstrim]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-tr ... ol-crashes

[SA227]

When the system went down, controllers picked up the strips and started calling planes individually on a standby phone.

Love this part. I've called Oceanic once in the Citation on the Sat Phone when we had an HF coupler issue one night but wasn't aware they had a "standby phone". Must be part of PBN.

And for Mr Warren, I'm picturing a large phone covered by a glass case

[Ian Warren]

directing-traffic-in-the-dark-when-flight-control-crashes

"You know those plastic strips air traffic controllers in the movies furiously shuffle and stack while some crisis unfolds out in the real world? Like on Die Hard 2? They exist, and they're important. Each one has information downloaded from an aircraft's flight plan, "

I like that line tho was not needed ... I was ready with my can off gasoline and fire sticks, come to think they should have just had a big switch similar in the movie just to transfer air traffic control to us flight sim nerds.