Small Transport
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 2
Distraction; Situational Awareness
ATC Issue All Types; Airspace Violation All Types
Air Traffic Control Separated Traffic; Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance
Procedure; Human Factors; Chart Or Publication; Airspace Structure
My Controller in Charge (CIC) issued a clearance to Aircraft X on the ground at HCR. The new procedure at HCR is that pilots are required to fly a Visual Climb Over Airport (VCOA) and remain within an arbitrary 5 mile radius of the airport and call us as soon as they're airborne.  Aircraft X was given all of this information and chose to fly directly south into the SLC arrival flow. He called me initially at 14;000 feet; 10 miles south of HCR airport; in another sectors airspace. Prior to this his transponder was not on. I gave the pilot radar contact; and asked him to confirm his position; to which he stated he was 'south of the airport'. This procedure is unsafe. Other airports have higher terrain than we do and they have SID's off both directions that actually work when it's IFR.There's no reason that we can't have a Runway 22 SID that goes over NONTY. The aircraft could climb to cross NONTY at 15;000 feet which would deconflict from Sector 32's traffic; and the arrival flows into SLC. Other airports have these procedures and their terrain is much more complicated than ours. This procedure was called completely illegal and unsafe a year ago and all that's changed is you deleted a footnote from the 7110.65. We can't keep pretending this is safe; until someone gets hurt. We have a responsibility to the flying public to do better.
A Center Controller reported an IFR aircraft departed a non towered airport; did not comply with a new departure procedure which the reporter states is unsafe and did not turn their transponder on. When the Controller radar identified the aircraft it was in an adjacent sector's airspace.