434ARWI21-107 governs air traffic control equipment maintenance, restoration, outage reporting, response times, and coordination.
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It covers scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, equipment interruptions and malfunctions, restoration priorities, and planned or emergency outages. It requires coordination among maintenance, air traffic control, airfield operations, and other affected agencies.
Applies to: This instruction applies to the Radar, Airfield, and Weather Systems (RAWS) Maintenance and Air Traffic Control (ATC) agencies on Grissom Air Reserve Base; and attachments 4 and 5 will also apply to Airfield Management and Weather Station.
Forecasted weather will be a least 3000ft ceiling and 5 miles visibility thru the period the requested RAWS equipment is to be withdrawn from service. (T-3). (paragraph 2)
Significant downtime request of RAWS equipment that will impair the flying mission will be coordinated as far in advance as possible with the Airfield Operations Manager or in his absence the Air Traffic Manager (ATM) during normal duty hours, Monday-Friday, 0730L to 1530L. (paragraph 3)
The ATC WS/CIC will defer maintenance downtime request until approved by the OG/CC or designated authority. (paragraph 3)
Emergency conditions that warrant the immediate withdraw of Grissom’s RAWS will be immediately reported to the ATC WS/CIC through the COM with the final determination and coordination to shut down the RAWS equipment by ATC. (T-3). (paragraph 3)
The RAPCON is designated as the primary NOTAM monitor facility and serves as the focal point for all information concerning RAWS performance. (paragraph 3)