Expect more holding for EWR

[NovemberEcho]

Related to all of this, I’ve been told that the Waterloo, IA TRACON got merged into the Des Moines, IA TRACON earlier this year.

With only a single fiber line (not two, redundancy was the spec) for the radar feed to DSM.

Brilliant. At least it’s flat out there, I guess.

Eh that’s an entirely different situation. Through Fusion, DSM is getting feeds through multiple different radars. If one goes out it doesn’t really affect anything. The problem with EWR/PHL was that all the radar feeds still went to N90, and then all that data was transmitted to PHL over a single line. So even though we lost everything here in PHL, it still worked fine at N90.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Eh that’s an entirely different situation. Through Fusion, DSM is getting feeds through multiple different radars. If one goes out it doesn’t really affect anything. The problem with EWR/PHL was that all the radar feeds still went to N90, and then all that data was transmitted to PHL over a single line. So even though we lost everything here in PHL, it still worked fine at N90.

Ahhh, okay. I’m not nearly as familiar with the actual machinery as I should be (my desire to know more has intensified), but I thought I’d pass it along.

Thanks for the insight. Is “Fusion” the project or the product?

 

[Wardogg]

Until Joe the Plumber with his ditch witch without a survey….

Pretty safe from that. He’s dead. Pancreatic cancer. Very sad.

 

[NovemberEcho]

Ahhh, okay. I’m not nearly as familiar with the actual machinery as I should be (my desire to know more has intensified), but I thought I’d pass it along.

Thanks for the insight. Is “Fusion” the project or the product?

I believe it’s the name of both. But basically we used to only have a feed from our own radar but Fusion merged all the surrounding facility radars which let us go from a 5-7 second sweep to a 1-2 second sweep, better radar coverage, and tons more redundancy.