Air Traffic Control: How it REALLY works! 2014

Key Topics

• Airport Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) operations
  • Ground Control
  • Clearance Delivery
  • Local (Tower) Control
• Foundational ATC Concepts
  • Visual Flight Rules (VFR) vs. Instrument Flight Rules (IFR)
  • Basic terms
  • Airspace structure, allocation, and restrictions
  • ATC facilities
  • ATC Enabling Technologies
  • Special Use Airspace
  • Wake vortices
  • Airspace integrity procedures
• Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) Operations
  • Radar Operations
  • Non-Radar Operations
  • Local/Regional Traffic Flow Management
• Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) Operations
  • Arrival Control
  • Departure Control
• Traffic Flow Management (TFM)/Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) Operations
  • Radar data management
  • Flight data management
  • National Traffic Flow Management Strategies
  • Collaborative Decision Making process

Who should Attend

• Aviation Management
  • Industry
  • Government
• ATC Technology Developers
  • Government/industry computer scientists
  • Government/industry engineers
  • Etc
  • Government/industry/university researchers and teachers
• Aviation observers and oversight bodies
  • Aviation press
  • U.S. Congress staff, Aviation committees and subcommittees
  • Technology press and magazines
  • Aviation magazines
  • Other interested parties
• Operations personnel
  • Commercial/corporate dispatchers
  • Commercial/corporate/private Pilots
  • Flight training schools and universities
  • Airport managers and staff