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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).

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