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Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace.

2025年2月1日 · Only one air traffic control worker was managing the helicopters and some planes from the Reagan National Airport tower at the time of the collision, a job normally done by two people, two sources ...

Terminal radar approach control - TRACON handles departing and approaching aircraft within its space. Air traffic control tower (ATCT) - An ATCT is located at every airport that has regularly scheduled flights. Towers handle all takeoff, landing, and ground traffic.

2025年1月31日 · The control tower at the Reagan National Airport after the crash of an American Airlines plane on the Potomac River. ... Some traffic control towers at major airports around the country ...

2025年1月31日 · The control tower at San Carlos Airport on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 in San Carlos, Calif. The air control tower at San Carlos Airport will be unstaffed starting Feb. 1. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)

Airport Traffic Control Towers provide for a safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of traffic in the vicinity of an airport. When the responsibility is delegated, towers also provide for the separation of Instrument Flight Rules aircraft in the terminal areas; This flow of traffic begins with the flow of information to pilots through clearance ...

2024年9月15日 · While pilots are the face of flight safety in the air, the controllers in air traffic control towers manage the flow of aircraft, ensuring that flights take off, land, and cruise through the skies without issue.

Tower Controller (TWR): controls the runway and its intersections, authorising landings and take-offs, and controlling the visual flight rules (VFR). It operates in the space known as ATZ with a range of 5 nautical miles (9260 m) and reports adverse weather, runway works or any eventualities that may affect the operation such as bird flocks.

The tower controller provides air traffic services to aerodrome traffic. They handle flights during the start-up, taxi, take off and landing phases of the flight using mostly visual observation.