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Air Traffic Monitoring => Listener Forum => Topic started by: Casper87 on August 14, 2007, 05:18:56 PM

Title: ATC Disciplines
Post by: Casper87 on August 14, 2007, 05:18:56 PM

Jus wonderin wot people think

Title: Re: ATC Disciplines
Post by: edro20 on August 14, 2007, 08:49:02 PM

I assume that you mean Tower as we say here in the States when mentioning aerodrome control.

Title: Re: ATC Disciplines
Post by: DairyCreamer on August 14, 2007, 11:12:07 PM

And I shall assume "Area Radar" means "ARTCC" or "Center" for the US.

~Nate

Title: Re: ATC Disciplines
Post by: Casper87 on August 15, 2007, 05:04:10 PM

Yep

Aerodrome - Tower

Area - Centre ( lol different english spelling aswell )

Jus another question....Dallas Fort Worth.....3 control towers?? Anyone know which ones responsible for what?? coordination must be a nightmare

Casp

Title: Re: ATC Disciplines
Post by: MathFox on August 15, 2007, 06:20:28 PM

Quote from: Casper87 on August 15, 2007, 05:04:10 PM

Jus another question....Dallas Fort Worth.....3 control towers?? Anyone know which ones responsible for what?? coordination must be a nightmare

Amsterdam Schiphol has two towers; the west tower does the west part of the Schiphol CTR (36L, 18R and VFR traffic west of 18/36C), the central tower does all other runways, and "east" VFR traffic. The towers usually kick GA to the appropriate tower at the first call.

Title: Re: ATC Disciplines
Post by: LAPTOP GAMER on August 16, 2007, 12:20:41 AM

I play ATC sim 2 and it is a small taste of how tough it is. I say radar approach is tough as things can get out of hand quickly, if it is busy, I slow them down to 180 and sort them out then adjust speed as needed.

Title: Re: ATC Disciplines
Post by: Scrapper on August 21, 2007, 08:58:15 AM

Biggest and most challenging thing missins on this list (and that most people not exposed to ATC don't realize) is GROUND control... at a place like JFK or CYYZ, this is probably the most challenging of positions...