Author: United States. Federal Aviation AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Index of FAA National and WA Orders
Author: United States. Federal Aviation AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Washington Headquarters Directives Checklists as of April 30, 1981
Author: United States. Federal Aviation AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Assessment of Staffing Needs of Systems Specialists in Aviation
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309286530
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Airway Transportation System Specialists ATSS) maintain and certify the equipment in the National Airspace System (NAS).In fiscal year 2012, Technical Operations had a budget of $1.7B. Thus, Technical Operations includes approximately 19 percent of the total FAA employees and less than 12 percent of the $15.9 billion total FAA budget. Technical Operations comprises ATSS workers at five different types of Air Traffic Control (ATC) facilities: (1) Air Route Traffic Control Centers, also known as En Route Centers, track aircraft once they travel beyond the terminal airspace and reach cruising altitude; they include Service Operations Centers that coordinate work and monitor equipment. (2) Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facilities control air traffic as aircraft ascend from and descend to airports, generally covering a radius of about 40 miles around the primary airport; a TRACON facility also includes a Service Operations Center. (3) Core Airports, also called Operational Evolution Partnership airports, are the nation's busiest airports. (4) The General National Airspace System (GNAS) includes the facilities located outside the larger airport locations, including rural airports and equipment not based at any airport. (5) Operations Control Centers are the facilities that coordinate maintenance work and monitor equipment for a Service Area in the United States. At each facility, the ATSS execute both tasks that are scheduled and predictable and tasks that are stochastic and unpredictable in. These tasks are common across the five ATSS disciplines: (1) Communications, maintaining the systems that allow air traffic controllers and pilots to be in contact throughout the flight; (2) Surveillance and Radar, maintaining the systems that allow air traffic controllers to see the specific locations of all the aircraft in the airspace they are monitoring; (3) Automation, maintaining the systems that allow air traffic controllers to track each aircraft's current and future position, speed, and altitude; (4) Navigation, maintaining the systems that allow pilots to take off, maintain their course, approach, and land their aircraft; and (5) Environmental, maintaining the power, lighting, and heating/air conditioning systems at the ATC facilities. Because the NAS needs to be available and reliable all the time, each of the different equipment systems includes redundancy so an outage can be fixed without disrupting the NAS. Assessment of Staffing Needs of Systems Specialists in Aviation reviews the available information on: (A) the duties of employees in job series 2101 (Airways Transportation Systems Specialist) in the Technical Operations service unit; (B) the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union of the AFL-CIO; (C) the present-day staffing models employed by the FAA; (D) any materials already produced by the FAA including a recent gap analysis on staffing requirements; (E) current research on best staffing models for safety; and (F) non-US staffing standards for employees in similar roles.
Safety of the Air Traffic Control Systems
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on AviationPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Emergency Problems Confronting the Air Traffic Control System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government OperationsPublisher:
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Category : Air traffic control
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Corporate Author Headings
Author: Federal Council for Science and Technology (U.S.). Committee on Scientific and Technical InformationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Aircraft Accident Report
Author: Emergency Problems Confronting the Air Traffic Control System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Government OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Emergency Problems Confronting the Air Traffic Control System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities SubcommitteePublisher:
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Category : Air traffic rules
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Considers air traffic control problems, such as the need for more sophisticated aircraft control devices and highly-trained air traffic controllers. Also considers the need to limit general air traffic at major airports, to provide more effective flight scheduling, and to increase Federal allocations for airport construction and improvement.
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