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    Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section...
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    Air traffic control specialists, abbreviated ATCs, are personnel responsible for the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic in the global...
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    F-15 Eagle fighters were scrambled to intercept the aircraft. Sea–Tac air traffic control made radio contact with Russell, the sole occupant, who described...
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    Air Traffic are an English alternative rock band from Bournemouth signed to EMI Records. Formed in 2003, the band consists of Chris Wall (piano, lead...
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    Swiss air traffic control (ATC) service in charge of the sector involved, as well as ambiguities in the procedures regarding the use of the traffic collision...
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  • The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was a United States trade union of air traffic controllers that operated from 1968 until...
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    The Air Traffic Organization (ATO) is an air navigation service provider in the United States of America. The ATO is the operational division of the Federal...
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  • The United States has 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC). They are operated by and are part of the Federal Aviation Administration of the U...
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  • In aviation, an air traffic service (ATS) is a service which regulates and assists aircraft in real-time to ensure their safe operations. In particular...
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  • Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network (VATSIM) is a nonprofit organization that operates an online flight-simulation network noted for its active membership...
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    Air traffic management (ATM) aims at ensuring the safe and efficient flow of air traffic. It encompasses three types of services: air traffic services...
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    half-minute after taking off from Anchorage, KAL 007 was directed by air traffic control (ATC) to turn to a magnetic heading of 220°.: 31  This sharp...
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  • labor 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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    convicted murderer who was found guilty of the premeditated killing of an air traffic controller after his family died aboard BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight...
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    aircraft equipped with a corresponding active transponder, independent of air traffic control, and warns pilots of the presence of other transponder-equipped...
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    operations, two old abandoned hangars of the Royal Air Force had been converted into a terminal for passenger traffic. One hangar was used as a domestic terminal...
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    kinds of traffic including network traffic, air traffic, marine traffic and rail traffic, but it is often used narrowly to mean only road traffic. Rules...
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    the air traffic controllers were unaware that the Coast Guard aircraft had entered the runway without clearance, the MLIT installed a new air traffic controller...
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    for carrying approximately 82% (2020) of total available seat miles air traffic. IATA supports airline activity and helps formulate industry policy and...
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    seventh-busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic in India. The airport serves as a focus city for Air India and an operating base for IndiGo. In 2015...
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    interrogation. Aircraft have transponders to assist in identifying them on air traffic control radar. Collision avoidance systems have been developed to use...
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  • Air traffic flow management (ATFM) is the regulation of air traffic in order to avoid exceeding airport or air traffic control capacity in handling traffic...
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    cockpit resulting in inadequate interpretation of directions provided by air traffic control, and three specific incidents of failures in crew resource management...
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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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    Aviation (redirect from Air transport)
    pilots, or in high traffic areas (such as the United States) they may use radar to see aircraft positions. Becoming an air traffic controller in the United...
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  • This article deals with traffic in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, that is all forms of traffic in the British overseas territory of Saint...
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    In air traffic control, an area control center (ACC), also known as a center or en-route center, is a facility responsible for controlling aircraft flying...
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    Atlanta Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZTL) (radio communications, "Atlanta Center") is one of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers operated by the...
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  • involved. (Overflights might still be using services of a country's air traffic control centers). For example, the Federal Aviation Administration of...
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  • Washington Dulles International Airport when terrorists take over the air traffic control system. He must stop the terrorists before his wife's plane and...
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