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Security at a class D tower
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Denny wrote: Yes, they can. That's where the on/off switch is located. This whole conversation is confusing the physical location of the power supply to the ILS with the 'authority' to turn it off... On our airport the ILS is powered from a padlocked breaker box... The airport manager has an emergency key to the padlock and can physically shut it down, but the snarling and swearing that will shortly result will be something to behold because he does not have the authority to do so other than a true emergency... In my converstions with the techs who maintain the system (ILS and NDB) they take a dim view of anyone touching 'their' equipment... The lone exception has been the NDB which is prone to tripping off from nearby lightning strikes... We will routinely unlock the door to the shack and reset the breaker... The techs are happy not to make a 90 mile drive just for that... denny When I visited the KBED tower, there was the ILS switch right there in the tower cab. Note that this is different from removing power from the various LRUs. It's not just authority, it's not just removing power. -- Bob Noel (goodness, please trim replies!!!) |
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Security at a class D tower
The 9/11 terrorists must really being enjoying this from wherever they are. They have to be laughing so hard they wet themselves... The mighty US bureaucracy cowering in the streets and congressmen cowering in the basement, because some bug smasher got lost... I love my country, it is the government that turns my stomach... denny |
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Security at a class D tower
In the tower we have two switches. One switches the localizer between
the two runways, only one can be on at a time. The second switch shuts them both off. We normally have no reason to turn them off but that ability and authority rests with the person in charge in the tower. I don't know if our airport management has the ability to turn it off. I doubt it as the only other place to do it outside of the tower would be at the individual localizer and glideslope shacks. They have no responsibility for the system and probably couldn't care less. Denny wrote: Yes, they can. That's where the on/off switch is located. This whole conversation is confusing the physical location of the power supply to the ILS with the 'authority' to turn it off... On our airport the ILS is powered from a padlocked breaker box... The airport manager has an emergency key to the padlock and can physically shut it down, but the snarling and swearing that will shortly result will be something to behold because he does not have the authority to do so other than a true emergency... In my converstions with the techs who maintain the system (ILS and NDB) they take a dim view of anyone touching 'their' equipment... The lone exception has been the NDB which is prone to tripping off from nearby lightning strikes... We will routinely unlock the door to the shack and reset the breaker... The techs are happy not to make a 90 mile drive just for that... denny |
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Security at a class D tower
"Bob Noel" wrote in message ... When I visited the KBED tower, there was the ILS switch right there in the tower cab. Note that this is different from removing power from the various LRUs. It's not just authority, it's not just removing power. Is that what you're hung up on, the location of the switch? |
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