One controller rather than two was handling local plane and helicopter traffic on Wednesday night at the airport, a situation deemed ‘not normal’ but considered adequate for lower volumes of traffic, according to a person briefed on the matter. The military said the...
Air Traffic Talk 5.0 (1) 航空 一周一更 最新单集 RH and AG are two experienced air traffic controllers and pilots that host a weekly show answering listener questions, breaking down complex aviation topics, and relating their experiences to everyday occurrences in the national airspace system. ...
The FAA has a new plan that could double the number of air traffic controllers, as Transportation researcher Bob Poolereports. The new FAA Administrator, Mike Whitaker, announced that graduates schools participating in the agency’s Collegiate Training Initiative that update their...
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First, mobile monitoring is cost-effective; the route can be customized to focus on particular areas of concern, such as high traffic roads or neighborhood fixed sources. Second, concentrations are typically measured at short intervals using continuous instruments which, with good quality-control effor...
Air traffic control has been classified by the U.S. Department of Labor as the fourth most stressful job20,21. The majority of studies related to ATM contexts are focused on task complexity and mental workload rather than investigating the impacts and consequences of stress on controllers22,23...
Just as President Donald Trump rushed to claim that the 29 January mid-air collision over the Potomac River was the result of air traffic control incompetence resulting from the Federal Aviation Administration’s application of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) policies in controller recruitment,...
I was recently on a commercial flight into Portland, and the 737 had to break off its approach due to a small airplane flying into Pearson Airfield. I suspect the jet got an RA, the pilots couldn’t acquire the traffic, and they had to do a go-around. ...
We were so amused that we were stopping the traffic. Luckily we got out of the way quickly. We had lunch in the Pest part of the town (pun intended) near a market where we could fill all our souvenir needs starting with magnets and ending with local sausage. After our meal, we ...
“Chronically low staffing has been a problem for a while,” says Paul Rinaldi, a former air traffic controller and vice president of the Global Air Traffic Controller Alliance. “We stopped training during Covid, and a lot of people retired. This does have a negative impact on the volume ...