TRACON — BNA Nashville

General Responsibilities

• Provide ATC services within BNA TRACON airspace per the active runway configuration.
• VFR altitudes 500 ft above each depicted altitude (except LC) are the responsibility of the underlying position. VFR altitudes 500 ft above LC airspace are delegated to the appropriate overlying radar controller.
• Instruct arriving aircraft to contact Nashville Tower at or before the FAF, no farther than 15 NM from the airport.
• All Rwy 13/31 arrivals must be coordinated with Tower when in a 2/20 configuration.
• Reduced separation (2.5 NM) on final approved for: 2L, 2C, 2R, 20R, 20L.

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Position Responsibilities

ARE / ARW

Prior to handoff to Final Radar, establish aircraft at or descending to:

Traffic	Altitude
Aircraft on the downwind	8,000 ft
Arrival from east — base leg	6,000 ft, released to 5,000
Arrival from west — base leg	7,000 ft

Once handoff is passed to Final Radar, Final Radar has control for turns on all aircraft.

FRE / FRW

• Final Radar has control for turns on all aircraft upon initial contact.
• Change to Tower at or prior to FAF, not before 15 NM or before established on final approach course.
• When de-combined:
  • FRW → vectors to Rwy 2L/20R & 2C/20C
  • FRE → vectors to Rwy 2R/20L
• FRE must turn aircraft on at or below 3,000 ft (unless coordinated with FRW).
• FRW must turn aircraft on at or above 4,000 ft (unless coordinated with FRE).

DRE / DRW

Pre-Arranged Coordination:

• Only departure radar positions may apply P-ACP; cannot delegate to other positions.
• P-ACP applies only to radar-identified aircraft with two-way communications established.
• DRE & DRW may climb aircraft through ARE or ARW airspace without coordination.
• Do not use P-ACP if impractical.

Departure Radar East & West have control for turns away from runway heading with all departures upon comms transfer from Tower.

Satellite Radar (SRE)

Prior to handoff to Final Radar:

Traffic	Altitude
IFR	3,000 ft
VFR	2,500 ft or MVA (whichever is higher)

Provides IFR and VFR services to all satellite airports within satellite airspace.

MQY Rwy 19 Visual Approach Area:

• Defined as the area north of MQY between a line from MQY to BNA and MQY to MQY090 radial.
• Must vector IFR aircraft on visual approaches within the approach area prior to issuing the approach clearance.
• Transfer comms prior to 5 NM from MQY.

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Scratchpad Entries

BNA Primary

Scratchpad entries are built from three fields:

Field 1 — Approach Type	Field 2 — Additional Info	Field 3 — Runway
V – Visual	S – Visual Separation	L – Left
I – ILS	R – Requesting Runway	C – Center
Z – RNAV Z		R – Right
G – RNAV Y (GPS)		1 – Runway 31
L – Localizer		3 – Runway 13

Example: VL = Visual approach, Runway Left. IS = ILS with visual separation.

Satellite Airports

Satellite scratchpads combine approach type, runway, and miscellaneous info:

Approach Type	Runway	Misc
I – ILS	2nd digit of runway number	M – Missed Approach
G – RNAV/GPS	C – Circling Approach
U – VOR
V – Visual
L – Localizer

Example: I2 = ILS Runway [X]2. GC = RNAV/GPS Circling Approach.