Thu, Jun 22, 2006
Can Move Into New Tower... With Old Radar
One week after a Florida
congresswoman wrote to FAA Administrator Marion Blakey to protest
the agency's decision to delay opening the new control tower at New
York's Stewart International Airport (SWF) due to a delay in
transferring new radar equipment, the agency reversed its decision
and told airport officials they can have their new tower... with
the old radar.
As Aero-News reported
Tuesday, Congresswoman Sue Kelly took the FAA to task
for refusing to move the old tower's Terminal Automated Radar
Display and Information System (TARDIS) to the new tower, so it
could open for the busy summer travel season. The new radar, Kelly
said, could then be installed when it's ready.
Russell Chew, chief operating officer at the FAA as well as the
head of the Air Traffic Organization, told Kelly Wednesday the
agency would approve the move.
"I don't want to impugn the people who are trying to make those
decisions, but when we found that the software glitch that you
spoke of would take several months to rectify, that's when the
decision was changed," Chew told the congresswoman at a Washington
hearing on air traffic control modernization Wednesday.
"Can the FAA give Stewart airport and its controllers the
permission they need today to move the radar system from the old
tower to the new tower until they get what they need in the new
system from you later this year?," Kelly asked.
"Yes," Chew responded, without hesitation, according to the
Poughkeepsie Journal.
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