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3 unusual facts about air traffic control


Diori Hamani International Airport

The Air traffic control for NIM is operated by the ASECNA, which bases one of its five air traffic zones for the continent at Niamey.

Positive control

Positive control, the Air traffic control practice of controlling aircraft whose positions are determined by direct radar observation

Traffic control

Air traffic control, a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft


2009 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister helicopter crash

Begumpet and Shamshabad Air Traffic controllers lost contact with the aircraft at 9:02 am while it was passing through the dense Nallamala forest area.

23rd Special Tactics Squadron

Members of the U.S. Air Force's 23rd Special Tactics Squadron took part in Haiti earthquake relief operations by providing air traffic control operations at Haiti's Toussaint Louverture International Airport.

Concord Township, Champaign County, Ohio

Concord Township was the site of the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15 which fell to earth in a field following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron on March 9, 1967, triggering substantial changes in air traffic control procedures.

Ground communication outlet

Ground Communications Outlets (GCO) have been installed at some U.S. airports to provide a means for pilots on the ground to communicate with Flight Service Stations and Air Traffic Control (ATC) facilities for the purpose of filing, opening and closing VFR or IFR flight plans; obtaining weather briefings and clearances; and similar communications.

Ihab Ali Nawawi

L'Houssaine Kherchtou later testified in the United States that he had seen an Egyptian briefing Nawawi on air traffic control procedures, leading him to believe that an attack on an airplane, possibly in Saudi Arabia, was in the works.

Jane's Airport Review

Jane's Airport Review (part of Jane's Information Group) is recognised by the airport and air traffic control industries as the source for authoritative reporting on global market developments.

Parallel coordinates

Some important applications are in collision avoidance algorithms for air traffic control (1987—3 USA patents), data mining (USA patent), computer vision (USA patent), Optimization, process control, more recently in intrusion detection and elsewhere.

Spair Airlines Flight PAR-3601

About 15 minutes after takeoff, as Flight PAR-3601 reached Valjevo, Yugoslavia, pilot Vladimir Starikov contacted Belgrade air traffic control and said the plane was again having electrical system problems; that was the last contact air traffic control had with Flight PAR-3601.

The National Museum of Computing

The museum also includes the world's oldest working digital computer (the Harwell Dekatron / WITCH), machines from the 1960s such as the Elliott 803 and 905, an ICL 2966 mainframe from the 1980s, a wide range of analogue computers, a hands-on retrocomputing gallery, and several restoration projects such as the PDP-8 and the PDP-11-based air traffic control system from London Terminal Control Centre at West Drayton near London.


see also

Air Traffic

The band's name originated from when they used to rehearse in an industrial unit next to Hurn Airport, where air traffic control signals could be picked up on their amplifiers.

Daman, Daman and Diu

Indian Coast Guard Air Station, Daman is the premier Air Station of the Coast Guard and with all the airfield facilities, Air Traffic Control and other allied Air Traffic Services.

Fort Jeanne d'Arc

The site was designated the Moselle Common Area Control (MCAC), and provided air traffic control for a portion of Northeastern France and adjoining areas of Luxembourg and West Germany, along with approach control for four USAF bases as well as a flight plan service for RCAF Station Grostenquin.

Frances C. Wilson

As a company grade officer, Wilson served as an Air Traffic Control Officer at Yuma and Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Stations and as an Instructor at Marine Corps Development and Education Center's Instructional Management School.

Frequentis

The first order for an air traffic control facility arrived in 1955, for the Air Traffic Control system at the airport vienna.

Hillingdon House

The station had been home since the end of the war to the London Area Control Centre, renamed the London Air Traffic Control Centre in 1948 and the Uxbridge Air Traffic Control Centre in 1957.

J. Lynn Helms

Mr. Helms was a Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a trustee of the USAF Flight Test Museum, a Life Member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, a member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Society, an Honorary in the Air Traffic Control Association, Co-Founder of The J. Lynn Helms Aviation Science Scholarship Fund, University of Illinois, and a retired member of the Wings Club of New York City.

Location identifier

Three-letter identifiers are assigned as radio call signs to aeronautical navigation aids; to airports with a manned air traffic control facility or navigational aid within airport boundary; to airports that receive scheduled route air carrier or military airlift service, and to airports designated by the United States Customs Service as Airports of Entry.

Louis-Roland Comeau

Since that time he served on various boards, chairing life insurance company Assomption Vie and air traffic control operator Nav Canada.

N90

New York TRACON, an FAA Air Traffic Control facility in Westbury, NY

QFE

QFE, a Q code used by pilots and air traffic control that refers to atmospheric pressure and altimeter settings

Sensis

Sensis Corporation, a private company specializing in air traffic control and defense systems

Somali Civil Aviation Authority

The UN's Civil Aviation Caretaker Authority for Somalia (CACAS) since then collected over-flight revenues on behalf of the country, reinvesting the proceeds into air traffic control and airport maintenance.

Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network

In 2006, fifteen virtual flying enthusiasts used a full-sized simulator of a Boeing 747-400 in Australia to conduct a 130-hour round-the-world trip, for which Qantas Airways provided the food and VATSIM provided air traffic control.

Zdv

ZDV, an air traffic control center in the United States