air traffic control procedure

The safety board said it was looking into issues that include pilot training, air traffic control procedures and airport design.

The CAA also called for a review of air traffic control procedures.

This includes a set of clearance/information/request message elements which correspond to voice phraseology employed by air traffic control procedures.

This order prescribes air traffic control procedures and phraseology for use by persons providing air traffic control services.

It has a lot to do with building more airport capacity, with realistic scheduling by airlines and, yes, with the F.A.A. continuing improve air traffic control procedures.

The report contended that a prompt test program with hundreds of equipped planes could indicate whether "software or hardware modifications are necessary or whether pilot or air traffic control procedures must be modified."

The most effective sensor for planes in flight over the United States is the airplanes ahead of them, but that is mostly because, under current air traffic control procedures, planes are dispatched along fixed routes.

Those allegations were quickly eclipsed by the crash in early July of a chartered Russian jet in Swiss airspace that raised far broader questions about air traffic control procedures in Europe's cluttered skies.

Contemporary air traffic control procedures prohibited overtaking in the air corridors to ensure a safe operating environment inside these narrow air lanes and to prevent aircraft from accidentally straying into East German airspace.

Speedbird is a call sign used by British Airways during air traffic control procedures, as well as the name for the stylised Imperial Airways and later, British Overseas Airways Corporation emblem.

The ensuing investigation by the Civil Aviation Authority's Air Accidents Investigation Branch found that both the crew's lack of understanding English and military air traffic control procedures had contributed significantly to the crash.

The NTSB's report placed the primary responsibility for the accident on the Cessna pilot, while citing air traffic control procedures as a contributing factor, and recommended a review of minimum pilot skill levels required for instrument flight.

There was widespread speculation about a possible failure in air traffic control procedures at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, of a misunderstanding of controllers' instructions or a misreading of an altimeter by one of the pilots.

"The things we learned about air traffic control procedures were born in that control tower," said Mr. Arend, who publishes Air Cargo News and whose book "Great Airports Newark: 1928 to 1988" spurred a campaign to save Building 51.

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.

Bill Jackman, a spokesman for the Air Transport Association of America, which represents the airlines, said, "While the F.A.A. attributes a lot of the delays to airline scheduling, when air traffic control procedures are improved, we don't have delays."

On March 9, 1967, TWA Flight 553 fell to earth in a field in Concord Township, near Urbana, Ohio, following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, an accident which triggered substantial changes in air traffic control procedures.

Land and Hold Short Operations (LAHSO, pronounced "La-So") is an air traffic control procedure for aircraft landing and holding short of an intersecting runway, taxiway or another designated point on a runway, to balance airport capacity and system efficiency with safety.