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    radio. The position of air traffic controller is one that requires highly specialized knowledge, skills, and abilities. Controllers apply separation rules...
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  • The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was a United States trade union that operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981...
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    Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers (people) who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given...
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    Combat Controllers are FAA-certified air traffic controllers and maintain proficiency throughout their career. Along with TACPs, many Combat Controllers also...
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  • Air Traffic Controller (ぼくは航空管制官, Boku wa Kōkū Kanseikan, shortened as ATC) is a simulation computer game series, developed by TechnoBrain, that simulates...
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  • The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) is a labor union in the United States. It is affiliated with the AFL–CIO, and is the exclusive...
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  • connect to VATSIM and fly aircraft as a pilot, or direct traffic as an air traffic controller in what has been described as a close approximation of real-life...
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    avoidance system (TCAS) on board.: 110  In 2004, Peter Nielsen, the air traffic controller on duty at the time of the collision, was murdered in an apparent...
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    that the crash was caused by "mistakes and violations" made by air traffic controllers. Aeroflot Flight 7628 was a twin turbofan Tu-134 passenger jet...
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  • Air Traffic Controller is an indie pop band that started in Boston, Massachusetts. The lead singer, singer/songwriter Dave Munro, had previously served...
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    executed, without either stalling or pulling the wings off." When an air traffic controller requested he land the plane after this maneuver, he said "I don't...
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    murderer who was found guilty of the premeditated killing of an air traffic controller after his family died aboard BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937...
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    reconsignment and tracking Within air traffic management: air traffic controller Within rail traffic management: rail traffic controller, train dispatcher or signalman...
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  • Air Traffic Controller 3 (ぼくは航空管制官 三つ, Boku wa Kūkō Kanseikan San, also known as "ATC3", "My Tube" or simply by the airport featured (e.g. ATC3 RJAAN)...
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    approach. A single air traffic controller was monitoring ground and tower frequencies, which would typically be handled by two controllers. The aircraft flying...
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  • strike of air traffic controllers (ATCs). Following a decade of successful strikes in other industries, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization...
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  • Patrick Harten is an American Air Traffic Controller who guided US Airways Flight 1549 to its successful ditching in the Hudson River. Harten was controlling...
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  • International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations (IFATCA) unites the professional associations of air traffic controllers from around the world...
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    part of air traffic controllers in Zagreb. All 176 people aboard the two aircraft were killed,: 8 : 5–6  making it the world's deadliest mid-air collision...
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    airport disaster). The incident was attributed to errors made by air traffic controller (ATC) trainee Hideki Hachitani (蜂谷 秀樹, Hachitani Hideki) and trainee...
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  • Controller–pilot data link communications (CPDLC), also referred to as controller pilot data link (CPDL), is a method by which air traffic controllers...
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    Watanabe (渡辺 誠, Watanabe Makoto), chose to descend, ordered by the air traffic controller, when TCAS told the flight crew to climb, nearly colliding with...
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    factors relating both to air traffic controllers and to the Legacy jet's flight crew. According to CENIPA, the air traffic controllers contributed to the accident...
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    Air traffic controller (abbreviated to AC) is a United States Navy occupational rating. Navy air traffic controllers perform duties similar to civilian...
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    to contact the next sector controller. Sector boundaries are specified by an aeronautical chart. Air traffic controllers working within a center communicate...
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  • Air Traffic Controller is a video game written by air traffic controller David Mannering. It was released by Creative Computing for the TRS-80 Model I...
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    and air personnel must attend morning meetings to receive weather and safety updates. Additionally, the event employs its own air traffic controller who...
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    Conflict Alert (STCA), Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) and stripless controller working positions. Typically, air traffic control sectors at...
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    The Spanish air traffic controllers strike began on December 3, 2010, when the Socialist Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero declared rate 0 forcing...
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  • Future Air Navigation System (FANS) is an avionics system which provides direct data link communication between the pilot and the air traffic controller. The...
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