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Fox Xray · March 28th, 2008, 13:07

I'm not familiar with the radar used by approach (Micro EARTS ?) but in the center environment we use DSR which has an MSAW (Minimum Safe Altitude Warning) alert that flashes on the screen.

Sometimes after we hand A/C off to approach we'll get an alert and generally it's triggered by the A/C descending rapidly. Just like our conflict alert it's my understanding that the MSAW alert uses "predictive" information to trigger the alert.

Most likely you're seeing something like this happening.

March 28th, 2008, 13:07	#12
Fox Xray ATC Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 402	Re: Low Altitude Alert I'm not familiar with the radar used by approach (Micro EARTS ?) but in the center environment we use DSR which has an MSAW (Minimum Safe Altitude Warning) alert that flashes on the screen. Sometimes after we hand A/C off to approach we'll get an alert and generally it's triggered by the A/C descending rapidly. Just like our conflict alert it's my understanding that the MSAW alert uses "predictive" information to trigger the alert. Most likely you're seeing something like this happening.