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Re: ZLA Ground Stop
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 3:15 pm
by julio.elizalde
Did you folks read that this computer glitch was caused by a U-2 airplane heading east through ZLA airspace around 60,000 feet? Whoops.
Re: ZLA Ground Stop
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 1:53 pm
by Ryan B
Yeah... I've had more issues with ERAM than when we ran the original HOST/DARC system...
But it's NEXT GEN!
Re: ZLA Ground Stop
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 2:54 pm
by julio.elizalde
A friend of mine that works in defense said that most likely they had a radar jammer inadvertently active as they entered the airspace which set off the ground stop.
Re: ZLA Ground Stop
Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 8:29 pm
by Ryan B
It was explained to us (I'm in the terminal environment) that they were VFR on TOP (OTP is in the flight plan) but there was no altitude associated with them even though they were above FL600.... and the lack of altitude in the NAS computer system screwed everything up.
Now because of ONE stupid ERAM glitch we have to put altitudes in our VFR departures who will be flying with a code in the NAS. A little more workload and FL600 will NEVER affect me.... we only do codes for guys up to 17,500 (duh) I've never been a fan of entering a VFR cruise altitude (or assigning a hard VFR altitude - not that you can't!) in a guy getting flight following. Some facilities do it religiously, some don't.