Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Situational Awareness
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Human Factors; Procedure
A CRJ2 checked on my frequency (Departure) and immediately said they had received 'moderate wake turbulence' from the preceding departure. I asked the pilot to file a report on this event. The North Departure Controller had a wake turbulence report on Navajo position just a few minutes before this. This happens every day as PHX Tower uses 6;000/airborne and visual separation on every departure whether they are busy or not. I've filed several wake turbulence reports and I am actively trying to get my fellow controllers to report this every time. This is an unsafe procedure at PHX and a smaller aircraft is eventually going to have an accident due to wake turbulence at a low altitude. Stop visual departures on large aircraft.
P50 Controller voiced concern regarding the Tower wake separation techniques used with subsequent departures claiming the procedure is unsafe and results in wake turbulence encounters.