air traffic control unit

FISOs must been validated for each aerodrome, or other air traffic control unit they work for.

Most flights do not require radio contact with air traffic control units, but some pilots obtain a radio operator's licence should that eventuality arise.

No. 453 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force air traffic control unit.

Air traffic control can also be limiting, there are only so many aircraft an air traffic control unit can safely handle.

Since 2005 four of the squadrons have been re-formed by re-designating RAAF intelligence and air traffic control units.

A non-towered airport, sometimes inaccurately referred to as an uncontrolled airport, is an airport with no operating tower, or air traffic control unit.

All military flying operations from RAF Lyneham ceased on 30 September 2011, at which point the station's air traffic control unit closed.

When an air traffic control unit that will control a flight reaches capacity, arriving aircraft are directed towards holding patterns where they circle until it is their turn to land.

The station's air traffic control unit was named the best in the Royal Air Force in February 2012, winning the Raytheon Falconer Trophy.

The Coast Guard brought in a Hawkeye command plane to hover over Rocky Mount and act as aerial air traffic control unit, Mr. Ditt said.

The slot and any revisions are communicated to the aircraft operator as well as the air traffic control unit at the departure airport via a special network called AFTN.

An aide to Senator Kennedy said that the Federal Aviation Administration's replies to specific questions about communications with an air traffic control unit in Alaska the night of the incident were "nonresponsive and evasive."

In that case, some or all aircraft arriving and departing require clearances from a remote air traffic control unit, such as terminal or center control, even though there is no control tower managing landings and takeoffs.

Marine Air Traffic Control Unit 62 (MATCU 62) handled the airport traffic control operations including the airport tower and GCA radar(Ground Controlled Approach).

It utilises a distributed computing architecture and is capable of integrating geographically dispersed air traffic control units within a Flight Information Region (e.g. control towers at different airports and en route control centres) into a single coherent system.

The American contribution of logistical support - from building new airstrips in Albania to providing a mobile air traffic control unit near Tirana - is critical since at its core the relief operation has to make sense out of a logistical nightmare.