STARS

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 […]

Albuquerque Tower/TRACON (ABQ) transitioned from Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) to the Terminal Automation and Replacement (TAMR) G4 on Nov. 4. NATCA Terminal Automation Representative Aaron Rose also reported that STARS was successfully installed at […]

Pictured from left to right: Birtcil, Blount, Congressman Fleischmann, Kuapahi, and Wilcher. Congressman Chuck Fleischmann, who represents the 3rd District in Tennessee, his Deputy Chief of Staff (COS) Bob White, and Field Representative Michelle Harstine visited […]

AVL (Asheville, N.C.) recently transitioned from ARTS IIE to Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS). The transition went smoothly. “We officially declared IOC on Friday the 13th, at 6:15a.m.” said FacRep Bryan Pierce. “So far there […]