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Air traffic control tower is located near the McNamara Terminal. The A concourse houses 78 gates with 12 gates used for international departures and arrivals processing. [31] The A concourse is intended for all aircraft. At the midpoint of the concourse is a large, laminar flow water feature designed by WET. [35]
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.
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). The following is the alphabetic list of all ACCs and their FIRs as of October 2011:
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.
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 ...
Air traffic control audio describes the moments leading to the Philadelphia air ambulance crash. A mid-size air ambulance plane carrying a sick child and five others crashed on Friday night (31 ...
Common ARTS (or Automated Radar Terminal System) is an air traffic control computer system that air traffic controllers use to track aircraft.. The computer system is used to automate the air traffic controller's job by correlating the various radar and human inputs in a meaningful way.
The national air traffic system in the US is immense in both size and complexity, 14,000 air traffic controllers handle upwards of 45,000 flights a day across 29 million miles of airspace.