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Definition: air traffic control from The Macquarie Dictionary
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direction of airborne aircraft movement by ground-based personnel via a radiotelephone link or, in emergencies, by light signals.

Plural: air traffic controls


Air Traffic Control

From Encyclopedia of Transportation
No mode of public transportation has a greater emphasis on safety than the aviation industry. From manufacturing to maintenance requirements, every phase of air travel is closely scrutinized to ensure the safest environment for the air traveler. This same mind-set extends into the role of the professional air traffic controllers who must move the vast number of daily flights and the passengers aboard them. These efforts have resulted in the development of the safest mode of travel available—commercial flight. The thousands of daily flights that involve private general aviation aircraft also factor into this mix. So how does one constantly mix the largest of jumbo jet aircraft with the smallest of privately owned aircraft and still maintain the level of safety demanded by the flying public? The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has structured the National Airspace System (NAS) in a manner to ensure the separation of aircraft from other aircraft that share the crowded skies. Through…
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Full text Article air traffic control clearance

From An Illustrated Dictionary of Aviation
Authorization for an aircraft to proceed under conditions specified by an air traffic control unit (ICAO). This is to prevent collisions between known aircraft. The pilot-in-command of an aircraft must not deviate from the provisions of VFR ( visual flight rules ) or IFR ( instrument flight rules ) …
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When a technology is fully assimilated, it is relatively invisible. Such is the way with air traffic control. It seems to go on all around us without our caring much about it, even if we fly. Air traffic control began via the mail service. The airmail had to be delivered, and many new routes in…
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Full text Article air traffic control

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
the system by which airplanes are safely routed into and out of major airports. Air traffic control in the United States is centered in a number of regional control centers that route airplanes along established airways to airport traffic control centers. There Instrument Landing Systems and…
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Full text Article air traffic control unit

From An Illustrated Dictionary of Aviation
A generic term meaning variously, area control center, approach control office, or aerodrome control tower. As the circumstances require, an ATC ( air traffic control ) unit may be (i) an area control center (ACC) established to provide ATC services to IFR ( instrument flight rules ) and VFR ( …
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Full text Article air traffic control system command center

From An Illustrated Dictionary of Aviation
An air traffic tactical operations facility consisting of four operational units. These are central flow control function (CFCF), central altitude reservation function (CARF), airport reservation office (ARO), and ATC ( air traffic control ) contingency command post. CFCF is responsible for…
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The job of an air traffic controller is laden with responsibility—and stress. Radar is still a useful tool for controllers, but it’s augmented by satellite data and various devices that allow controllers to warn pilots of altitude problems, sequence takeoffs and landings safely, and warn of flights…
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Full text Article UK Air Traffic Control

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
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Full text Article air traffic control specialist

From An Illustrated Dictionary of Aviation
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Full text Article air traffic control instruction

From An Illustrated Dictionary of Aviation
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Full text Article dynamic air traffic control

From An Illustrated Dictionary of Aviation
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