In article ,
(Nathan Young) wrote:

"David Brooks" wrote in message
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Question for the enroute controllers. You have a spamcan or two, not filed
/G, cleared direct to some fix. You don't care whether they are navigating
with pilotage, a VFR GPS, or a ham sandwich, so long as they are on radar
and don't go too grotesquely out of the way.

Now the radar goes kaplooey, or whatever noise radar makes when it decides
not to be radar any more.

How do you get these guys into the no-radar rules - point them at the
nearest navaid? Tell them to join the nearest airway? How do you maintain
separation? Does this possibility make you nervous while the radar is
working? I assume this is in the controller's handbook, but forgive my
laziness. Just curious.

-- David Brooks

For the purists, s/radar/RADAR/g. For the pedants, 1,$s/radar/RADAR/g

Love the VI commands. Shouldn't they have an escape-escape sequence before
them?

vi, humph. It's ed. Kids these days... :-). Anyone else for teco?

Anyway, he's wrong(ish). It's decades since radar has been considered
an acronym and spelled RADAR. Even my Pathetic Oxford spells it all
lower-case. After all, we don't go around shouting LASER when we mean
laser any more, do we?

Hamish (and don't get me started on those people who insist on
"ded. reckoning"...:-))