8.2 Blog Discussion: Air Traffic Control Entities

 As we were learning about the job of Air Traffic Control this week, it reminded me of a recent article from the beginning of the year where a German man was arrested for impersonating an ATC authority. If you have not seen that new story, you can read it here on the New York Post.

This story helped me decide the geographical location I chose to focus on.    In Europe, before a flight is able to take off, a flight plan is filed with the Eurocontrol’s Network manager Operations Center, located in Brussels, Belgium, or Brétigny-Sur-Orge, France.   This is Europe’s intergovernmental air traffic management organization that represents 43 European countries.  The network management’s job is to make flights through and within Europe safely and smoothly as possible.   They check flight plans obey air traffic rules and regulations, verify planned path follows an approved airway.  No aircraft is able to take off unless Network Management Control approves the flight plan (EUROCONTROL, n.d.). 

The next step is flight dispatch at the airport and ground control.  Ground control is responsible for navigating aircraft on the ground around the airport until they reach the runway.  They determine when it is safe to enter sections of the taxiways, when it is safe to cross other runways, and they also control where aircraft can head to get to their gates (Browne, 2020).  They will dispatch follow-me cars, move fueling trucks around, and other service vehicles.  They keep track of the locations of all vehicles that are required to entire the apron (Atcradarsim, 2014).

References

Atcradarsim. (2014, September 14). Why Ground Control is as challenging as Air Traffic Control. Retrieved from http://atcradarsim.com/why-ground-control-is-as-challenging-as-air-traffic-control/

Browne, V. (2020, July 16). What it’s like to work in air traffic control at Heathrow airport. Retrieved from https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/work/like-work-air-traffic-control-heathrow-airport-91252

EUROCONTROL. (n.d.). Introducing the EUROCONTROL Network Manager Operations Centre. Retrieved from https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/2020-02/eurocontrol-nm-operations-centre-in-brief-2020.pdf

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  1. David CooperApril 4, 2021 at 3:19 PM

    Brandon,

    First off that's definitely the coolest follow-me car I've ever seen. Second off very interesting reading about EUROCONTROL and how they coordinate/control flight plan approval.Through my work I've become quite familiar with local airfield operations and in country operations but not as much with international flight plan coordination or things past sector control. It's cool to see that Europe has such a smoothly designed system in place for the approval and distribution of flight plans. Makes sense as much of Europe functions similarly to the United States in terms of these type of greater coordination measures just between different nations instead of states that this would carry over to flight plans as well.

    David

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