Departure Controllers
Departure controllers handle aircraft that have already taken off but are transitioning from the airspace around or near an airport to the en route portion of their flights.
Approach Controllers ...
DEPARTURE CONTROL SEE RADIO NAVIGATION
DEPARTURE STALL - A stall in the takeoff configuration with power.
DEPARTURE CONTROL- A function of an approach control facility providing air traffic control service for departing IFR and, under certain conditions, VFR aircraft.
(See APPROACH CONTROL FACILITY.) ...
Approach and Departure Control is a traffic separation service that is provided through Terminal Radar Approach Control (FAA TRACON) in the resident Air Traffic Control facility of the airport.
After takeoff and the initial climb out from the departure airport, the local controller hands off the flight to the departure controller located in the Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON).
When safely airborne, tower control hands off the aircraft to departure control, which oversees the flight as it climbs away from the airport and enters the en route airspace.
PBI: Piedmont Seven Hundred, Departure Control. [Approach is also performing a Departure Control function at the moment.] Good morning. Radar contact. Climb maintain seven thousand. [Climb maintain is an abbreviation for "Climb to and maintain... "] ...
CENTER One of 24 FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers providing radar surveillance and traffic separation to participating en route traffic above and outside airspace handled by Approach and Departure Control.
On our first IFR takeoff in the airplane, the tower instructed us to contact departure control. Instead of using the radio, he did exactly what he practiced (incorrectly) in his class.
In 1946, the CAA unveiled an experimental radar-equipped tower for control of civil flights. By 1952, the agency had begun its first routine use of radar for approach and departure control.
 See also: IFR, Service, Airborne, Flight, Landing
  
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