Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 2
Situational Awareness; Time Pressure; Troubleshooting; Confusion; Distraction
ATC Issue All Types; Airspace Violation All Types; Deviation - Track / Heading All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance; Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach
Procedure; Airspace Structure; Human Factors
Aircraft X was on a Visual Approach to Runway 33 and cleared to land. On short final; pilot executed a go-around due to wind shear. Due to the lack of a Diverse Vector Area (DVA) at BUR; the only instruction that we are allowed to give an aircraft in this situation is to make left traffic back to Runway 33. The instruction forced the aircraft to violate the Class D airspace at both WHP and VNY airports; and there was no positive separation with the VFR aircraft within those Class D areas.We need DVAs at BUR so that we can vector IFR aircraft who are on missed approaches and have a procedure for getting them back to TRACON. This situation is dangerous. Before it was deemed illegal due to not having a DVA; this procedure would have been handled by issuing the go-around aircraft a 270 heading and a climb to 4;000 (SID instructions). This flight path keeps the aircraft away from all Class D airspace and allows the aircraft to be handed off back to TRACON; allowing the aircraft to be safely re-sequenced into an appropriate spot. We need to be able to do this again.
BUR Tower Controller reports of lack of procedures for go-around aircraft which often leads to airspace violations and possible losses of separation.