Air Traffic Control
ATC Facilities
The Air Traffic Control (ATC) system is run by the Federal Aviation Administration, an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Air Traffic Controller
The Air Traffic Controller is the person responsible for coordinating, directing, and guiding aircrafts through landing and takeoff.
Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air.
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Air Traffic Control (ATC)
A service operated by the appropriate authority to promote safe, orderly and expeditious flow in air traffic.
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The Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC) (previously known as Central Flow Control Facility) was established in 1970 to prevent pockets of congestion from disrupting the National Airspace System (NAS).
Air Traffic Control
The vast majority of flights are not handled by air traffic control (ATC). Surprised? You shouldn't be; just think about how you use your car on a daily basis.
Air Traffic Control (ATC)
A catch-all term for all the folks a pilot might be talking to in controlled airspace (or even outside it).
Air Traffic Control (ATC) - A service operated to promote the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic.
Air traffic control
A service provided for the control of aircraft flight movements in areas of controlled airspace and aircraft ground movements.
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Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) - A tower that has been established on an airport to provide for a safe, orderly and expeditious flow of traffic on and in the vicinity of the airport.
air traffic controller - A person at an air traffic control tower or radar approach control facility who coordinates the safe, orderly and expeditious flow of air traffic within designated airspace.
air traffic management system - see TMS.
Air Traffic Control: Standard aviation term used for the team of people that direct the planes, develop flight patterns and stress the alleviation of aviation accidents.
ATC (Air Traffic Control) The FAA service providing separation services to participating airborne traffic and clearances to land, take off or taxi at airports with a control tower.
Air traffic controllers may separate departing aircraft by visual means after considering aircraft performance, wake turbulence, closure rate, routes of flight and known weather conditions.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER Ground-based personnel responsible for coordinating, directing, and guiding airplanes through their landing and takeoff procedures.
Air Traffic Control Center - A drafty, ill-kept, barn-like structure in which people congregate for dubious reasons.
Alternate Airport - The airport that no aircraft has sufficient fuel to proceed to if necessary.
Air Traffic Control
ATIS
Automatic Terminal Information Service. A recorded voice message that provides weather and airport services information.
Air Traffic Control will apply separation distances to IFR aircraft except to VFR following a medium or heavy aircraft or IFR on a visual approach and were the pilot reported the previous traffic in sight and follows and maintains own separation.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SPECIALIST- A person authorized to provide air traffic control service.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM COMMAND CENTER- An Air Traffic Operations Service facility consisting of four operational units.
5. Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) (FAA). (Only those towers delegated approach control authority.).
RADAR ARRIVAL- An aircraft arriving at an airport served by a radar facility and in radar contact with the facility.
(See NONRADAR.) ...
ATCO Air Traffic Controller
ATPL Air Transport Pilot's Licence
C of A Certificate of Airworthiness (refers to the aircraft not the pilot!) ...
When air traffic control (ATC) tells you “caution — wake turbulence” they are really telling you that some previous airplane has left a wake vortex in your path.
ATCC: Air Traffic Control Centre.
AVGAS: aviation gasoline.
BCAR: British Civil Airworthiness Requirements (UK).
ATC - Air traffic control.
AUTOGYRO - An aircraft with an unpowered rotary wing, which autorotates as the machine is propelled through the air by a conventional power plant.
ATC: Air Traffic Control
AUCTION: An award sale through which program members use their miles to bid against each other for a one-time only award that often involves attending special events or meeting famous people.
Know the Air Traffic Control Rules and procedures pertaining to that particular flight.
Pre-Flight Inspection: Every flight should be preceeded by a preflight inspection of the plane.
Cabin Inspection: ...
ASDE-X enables air traffic controllers to detect potential runway conflicts by providing detailed coverage of movement on runways and taxiways.
Mode-A A transponder which does not give the controllers altitude information Mode-C A transponder and encoding altimeter which together give air traffic controllers altitude information Mode-S A new "flavor" of transponder which features unique ...
A high-frequency system enabling air traffic control to alert a particular aircraft, by means of flashing light or aural signal in the cockpit, for receipt of a message without the crew having to maintain a listening watch.
At stake is the cost to run a branch of the government, the FAA, which has approximately 14,500 air traffic controllers watching over almost 3,400 airports in 316 ATC facilities throughout the United States.
Transponder A device aboard an aircraft for transmitting data to an air traffic control radar system. Each time the transponder is queried by the radar, it responds with a numeric code and the aircraft's altitude.
Designed to expedite air traffic control arrival procedures and to facilitate transition between en route and instrument approach operations.
D & D - Distress & Diversion Cells at Air Traffic Control Centres. RAF units which provide a 24 hour listening watch on VHF and UHF emergency frequencies and can locate and assist pilots who are lost or in emergency situations.
Transponder: A radio transmitter in the plane that responds to the radar signal from Air Traffic Control, permitting it to easily detect the airplane. The transponder it set to a "squalk code" to permit the aircraft to be identified.
The government agency responsible for air safety and operation of the air traffic control system. The FAA also administers a program which provides grants from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for airport development.
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VISUAL APPROACH PROCEDURES - An approach to an airport wherein an aircraft on an IFR flight plan, operating in VFR conditions under the control of a radar facility and having air traffic control authorization, ...
At airports without air traffic control towers this is all that needs to be said on the radio. If you were flying at an airport with a control tower, radio communication is a bit more involved. We'll cover that in a future e-newsletter.
- The path of aircraft traffic around an airfield, at an established height and direction. At tower-controlled fields the pattern is supervised by radio (or, in non-radio or emergency conditions by red and green light signals) by air traffic ...
ATC - Air Traffic Control
ATF Aerodrome Traffic Frequency - VHF frequency designated for use in the vicinity of certain specified uncontrolled airports
ATIS - Automated Terminal Information Service
ATS - Air Traffic Services ...
ATC - Air Traffic Control
AWACS - Airborne Warning and Control System (see AEW&C) - Aircraft (usually Boeing E-3) equipped with a powerful radar and on-board command and control center to direct the friendly forces ...
ATC - Air Traffic Control. The people in control towers (at airports that have them) to regulate takeoffs, landings, and planes moving through their general area.
ATI and ATR - ARINC from factors.
ATM - Air traffic management.
 See also: Air traffic, Aircraft, Flight, Aviation, Airport
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