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Submitted to – Shanda Paul Submitted to – Mrs. stead
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGYAIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
the ground-based personnel and equipment concerned with
controlling and monitoring air traffic within a particular area.
DEFINITION
To become a air traffic controller you must have the following skills. •ATC
motivation;
•conscientiousness and rule adherence;
•decisiveness and confidence; •emotional stability;
•error awareness; •information processing capability;
•numerical awareness; •open to learning and development; •planning, decision making and problem solving;
•spatial awareness; •team working
You must go to college for 1 and a half to two years..
QUALIFICATIONS
•keeping radio and/or radar contact with aircraft;
•directing the movement of aircraft en route or at an airport;
•instructing aircraft to climb or descend and allocating final cruising level;
•providing information to aircraft about weather conditions;
•making sure that minimum distances are maintained between planes;
•handling unexpected events, emergencies and unsch •controlling movements onto and off runways;
•handling the ground movement of planes around the terminals;
•handling the ground movement of vehicles around the airport.
eduled traffic.
DUTIES
air traffic controllers are needed 24 hours a day (not the
same guy for that whole stretch, fortunately), it takes major string pulling to get a
decent shift.
WORK SCHEDULE
Air traffic controllers earn relatively high pay and have good benefits. Median annual earnings of air traffic controllers in May 2006 were
$117,240. The middle 50 percent earned between $86,860 and $142,210. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $59,410, and the highest 10
percent earned more than $145,600. The average annual salary, excluding overtime earnings, for air traffic controllers in the Federal Government—which employs 90 percent of all controllers—was $122,220 in May 2006.
SALARY
An airport obviously.
LOCATION
PICTURES
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URLS.
Traffic in the air is controlled from a tower and can be classified into three general functional groups: ground control, local or air
control and clearance delivery (which coordinates taxiing).
Read more: http://www.ehow.com/facts_4569482_air-traffic-control.html#ixzz2jIdN04fm
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