Welcome to "Tom Lusch dot com"

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I care a lot about my air traffic control profession. In Feb 2000, out of my continuing concern about how radar data is processed in the enroute environment, I created Lusch's Midair Collision Investigations.

From the following quick links you can read some highlights from that web site...

  • read an Unsatisfactory Condition Report I wrote in 1988 about this compromise in radar data processing.
  • read a paper from a presentation I gave in 1991 about this compromise [this paper was later republished in the Journal of Air Traffic Control, January-March 1992 issue (pgs 29-33)].
  • view my slide show from that 1991 presentation.
  • read a 1992 letter I wrote about how an aircraft in an emergency situation was detected by radar, but was not able to be provided radar services due to this compromise in radar data processing.
  • read a 1992 letter from the acting FAA Administrator that responds to why my 3 recommendations were not able to be adapted. As I write this 15 years later (22 years after I first discovered this anomaly), we process radar data in the same manner.
  • read my Feb 2000 writing regarding the 1984 midair collision near San Luis Obispo, CA. In the NTSB's "probable cause," they said that air traffic controllers had simply failed to see the VFR radar target on their display. Read why I feel the NTSB made an erroneous finding, and why I feel the"probable cause" should be rewritten.
  • read the NTSB's April 2000 reply to my Petition for Reconsideration.

    • You may also find some of my other concerns worth reading...

  • read about my experience with a transponder that was stubbornly invisible to ATC radar when we first changed to Mode S radar at CMH.
  • read about my concern that we don't have enough redundancy when it comes to altimeter settings for instrument approach procedures for the smaller general aviation airports.
  • read my response to all the brouhaha about Taxi Into Position and Hold (TIPH) procedures. I'm sorry, but I think everyone has been barking up the wrong tree, as CLEARED TO LAND is what has been broken, not TIPH. But at least with the Feb 5, 2007 change in procedures, there has been improvement to the meaning of CLEARED TO LAND.

    • Many folks may think that my union is "blowing smoke" about the ATC staffing crisis. They aren't. You can find some of my statements about this situation here.

    If you are a pilot in the Central Ohio area, you may appreciate subscribing to a Yahoo Group I created, called NOTAM-KCMH.

    Want to learn more about me? You may find this link helpful.

    Thanks for visiting. You may contact me via email, or by telephone at 614-370-1437.

    Sincerely,

     

    Thomas G. Lusch