ATC having a bad day?
Posted: 24 Aug 2005, 22:23""Straight from the horse's mouth" - Problems with ATC today.
didn't this happen before[?]
With both the UK and Europe going "on the blink" at the same time[}:)]
buns
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Posted: 24 Aug 2005, 22:23Posted: 24 Aug 2005, 22:26Posted: 24 Aug 2005, 22:33Yea- the computers were down. The capitain told us. VS 45 was delayed about 65 min
Posted: 24 Aug 2005, 23:15Ah, the thing which prints the flight strips and ties up the 4-digit (octal!) squawk code to the callsign went on the blink by the look of it.
That means you have to write your own flight strips (or get your friendly neighbourhood ATSA to do it for you) as the aircraft come into your airspace, and rather than it saying VIR046 next to the blip which is VS46, it will say something like 7652 (which you then manually match up to VIR046 by looking at the flight strips).
It slows things down quite a lot when this happens!
Cheers,
Mike
That means you have to write your own flight strips (or get your friendly neighbourhood ATSA to do it for you) as the aircraft come into your airspace, and rather than it saying VIR046 next to the blip which is VS46, it will say something like 7652 (which you then manually match up to VIR046 by looking at the flight strips).
It slows things down quite a lot when this happens!
Cheers,
Mike
Posted: 24 Aug 2005, 23:17Right one. But after 30 mins they turned on V:Port. Detailed the in the trip report to follow.
Posted: 25 Aug 2005, 00:12No, not a good day for UK ATC. Computers went down around 9.30am and they stopped a lot of (but not all) traffic getting into the air. NATS Incident centre had reported by 9.55 that they were restarting the server and if that worked all would be back to 100% by 1100. Seemed to work fine after that.
Got two of my flights delayed a bit but not a real disaster like before.
Seems Maastricht had a problem around the same time as well and when everything came back on line Heathrow ended up with a restriction because of weather. [:(]
Graham
Got two of my flights delayed a bit but not a real disaster like before.
Seems Maastricht had a problem around the same time as well and when everything came back on line Heathrow ended up with a restriction because of weather. [:(]
Graham