STARS

NATCA Tampa ATCT (TPA) is very proud of its Metroplex team for the implementation last month of a project to implement new Standard Instrument Departures (SIDs) and Standard Terminal Arrivals (STARs) systems that were years in […]

Rick Heckman, a retired NATCA member whose passion for air traffic control earned him wide respect and admiration as a beloved brother and friend, passed away recently. He was 60. Having worked at Philadelphia TRACON (PHL) […]

Nearly two decades after the initial deployment of the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS), NATCA and the FAA have marked a collaboration milestone on National Airspace System (NAS) modernization: the completion of the deployment waterfall. The […]

NATCA/FAA career: I was hired in 2000 at Burlington Flight Service after 11 years in the Marine Corps and one year working in contract towers. In 2005, I was lucky to survive the AFSS (Automated Flight […]

By: Aaron Rose, NATCA Terminal Automation Representative Photos courtesy of Raytheon. Imagine for a moment that software and hardware designers for smartphones never actually used the equipment they developed. They never handled it, never opened the […]

On Dec. 11, Lake Charles, La., (LCH) transitioned to STARS (Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System) from ARTS IIE (Automated Radar Terminal System). This transition has been a long time coming and members at the facility have […]