The statement points out that many FAA air traffic control facilities are inside airport security areas.
Any flight outside of these very tight parameters requires permission from the air traffic control.
He was speaking after talks with Eurocontrol, which co-ordinates air traffic control in 38 nations.
By the runway, a brand new air traffic control tower needed to be built.
Air traffic control grants the request, and I point the airplane's nose over Lake Erie.
Usually smooth on the radio, I boot my first call to air traffic control.
He might attack air traffic control systems and cause the collision of two civilian aircraft.
Suddenly I have an inspiration: Ask air traffic control (ATC) to be diverted to Minneapolis.
It's airlines versus corporate jets in a Capitol Hill dogfight over the air traffic control system.
Air traffic was growing, and the air traffic control (ATC) system couldn't handle the swelling volume.
"It's like air traffic control on water, " says Geir Karlsen, BP's expert on such operations.
Contract controllers are a widely used but little-known part of the FAA's air traffic control system.
Hackers and security researchers have warned for years of vulnerabilities in next-generation air traffic control protocols.
The Bureau of Labor, in its occupational projections, advises young people against careers in air traffic control.
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It is hard to imagine the air traffic control system functioning with its budget cut by 15 percent.
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Even with ADS-B, jets will be restricted to narrow lanes to reduce the complexity of air traffic control.
Air traffic control recordings from LiveATC.net captured Tuesday's incident as the the wide body was on the taxiway.
Contact with Flight KQ507 was lost by air traffic control shortly after take-off at 0005 local time (0105 GMT).
"Weather is the great equalizer in the air traffic control system, " Church said.
Airports and air traffic control are able to run more efficiently as more planes arrive and depart on schedule.
One of the FAA's major projects during the next five years is to revamp the air traffic control system.
No one should ever be scheduled to work alone at night in a critical job like air traffic control.
NextGen technology may have helped a recent air traffic control incident involving first lady Michelle Obama, Voss said.
It is set to replace radar in commercial aviation as the next generation of air traffic control systems come online by 2020.
Civil aviation officials were trying to reopen the airport and said looted air traffic control equipment would be returned.
Another near-term battle: reauthorization of spending on air traffic control and airport modernization.
When you take off and land, you double your chances of encountering delays due to weather or air traffic control.
Replacing outmoded radar-based air traffic control with more efficient systems has been possible for decades, but it has not happened.
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How in the world can our air traffic control system survive if air controllers are working ten percent fewer hours?
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For example, the interstate highway system, air traffic control system and even the Internet were the result of DoD projects.
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