Why does the E-3 ever bother getting a Radar service???
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Because the back end has never been trained how to stop aircraft bumping into each other. Traditionally they have relied on their not-so-well-honed skills for failing to achieve a merge. 
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Good question really, which begs for a follow up question;
Why do tankers need to land to refuel, they are tankers, why not just refuel themselves?
Why do tankers need to land to refuel, they are tankers, why not just refuel themselves?
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At the height that it flies, the E-3 is nearly always in controlled airspace and has to receive a mandatory radar service from a recognised Air Traffic Control. However, the mission crew routinely dedicates one console to "AWACS Monitor" where the operator ensures that other aircraft in the vicinity do not infringe the radar "safety zone" (or gets close enough to impinge upon JTIDS radiation rules) - this is necessary to fulfil the aircraft's safety case so we do not "fry" any civvies going on their holibobs. Also, the radar has an "underfoot" as well as an overhead, and ground radar fills in the hole for ATC purposes.
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Originally Posted by Lord Spandex Masher
Ever seen a snake eat itself?
In the early 1970s, on flights in/out of Kwajalein, then busy with Sprint anti-ballistic missile trials, using large radar arrays perfectly capable of tracking launches from the US West Coast, I used to be tickled that there was no ATC radar and that all approaches were procedural using ADF/VOR/TACAN - I forget which.
In the early 1970s, on flights in/out of Kwajalein, then busy with Sprint anti-ballistic missile trials, using large radar arrays perfectly capable of tracking launches from the US West Coast, I used to be tickled that there was no ATC radar and that all approaches were procedural using ADF/VOR/TACAN - I forget which.
Why do tankers need to land to refuel, they are tankers, why not just refuel themselves?
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And before that why only one monoply and mergers commission.
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...all approaches were procedural using ADF/VOR/TACAN - I forget which.
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Originally Posted by Wensleydale
Any more detail and I would have to shoot you.
Only if you hadn't been shot first!
Originally Posted by Wensleydale
Any more detail and I would have to shoot you.
Only if you hadn't been shot first!
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Cos the back end is Mission specific and the front end is just another airliner. Won't bore you with other aspects of radar theory........
But the RAF SAR Sea Kings....with their wonderful Radar....do it on their own don't they?
