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The Control Room Floor / Re: "Limited Services"
« on: March 28, 2019, 04:57:28 PM »The only understandable reason to use it as an excuse is if they're unfamiliar or uncertain of how to provide services or instructions or clearances outside of radar coverage. Otherwise they're acting in bad faith. I'm not sure which is more likely, probably the former if anything I'd hope.
I don't see ground movement or clearance delivery as something one would typically refer to as "non radar" though. Non radar to me describes things involving airborne or soon to be airborne aircraft without radar service. The glossary in the 7110.65 seems to agree. One doesn't even need to use top down mode to issue taxi instructions so its hard to see it as an excuse to not do top down tower cab service at least prior to departure even if somehow the people in question were unaware they had that feature in vERAM.
Those are GRP items, so they should be taught be demonstrate proficiency in nonradar procedures before being issued ratings. I know it's rare in most places, so I hope we at least have our folks in a place to remember how to look it up when they forget. Not knowing isn't an excuse to cop out.