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Boston Center is the 14th busiest air traffic control center in the United States. In 2010, Boston Center was responsible for handling 1,721,000 flights. [ 1 ] The Boston ARTCC currently covers 165,000 square miles (430,000 km 2 ) of airspace that includes airports in Connecticut , Vermont , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Maine , New Hampshire ...
The United States has 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC). [1] They are operated by and are part of the Federal Aviation Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation . An ARTCC controls aircraft flying in a specified region of airspace, known as a flight information region (FIR), typically during the en route portion of flight.
Boston South Area - Airspace to the south of Boston Logan International Airport. These airports include OWD, PYM, FMH, HYA, MVY, ACK, CQX, PVC. A90 is bordered by the following facilities: Providence TRACON (G90), Bradley TRACON (Y90), Portland TRACON (PWM), Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center.
Key U.S. air traffic control centers are facing staffing shortages that threaten the continuity of the country’s airspace system, a new federal government audit found.. The Department of ...
Area control centers (ACCs) control IFR air traffic in their flight information region (FIR). The current list of FIRs and ACCs is maintained by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). [1] Note that the cited ICAO source gives the shapefile coordinates for each FIR, and also its page source gives a list of current ACCs in text form.
Two men arrested after drone flies ‘dangerously close’ to Boston’s Logan Airport, police say. Eric Levenson, CNN. December 15, 2024 at 12:57 PM.
The Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations and Innovation on Thursday morning is set to debate the safety of U.S. air traffic control. The probe comes after a 114-page report ...
In air traffic control, an area control center (ACC), also known as a center or en-route center, is a facility responsible for controlling aircraft flying in the airspace of a given flight information region (FIR) at high altitudes between airport approaches and departures.