Sentences with phrase «of air traffic controllers»

There is already a system of air traffic controllers and government agencies who can monitor takeoff, landing, and flight paths to ensure autonomous aircraft don't collide.

Specifically, we need a smart, new generation of air traffic controllers and flight data coordinators, as our generation begins to retire.

They came up with Disaster Relief Mission, a simulation where students play the role of air traffic controllers and pilots responding to crisis situations around the country.

This is about the actions of the terrorists on board the plane, the experiences of the passengers and the response of air traffic controllers and the military — nothing else.

Since the rapture also sent a bunch of air traffic controllers heavenward, Steele enlists Williams to help him land the now - crippled jet in New York.

April 22, 2013 • Some travelers faced delays Monday as furloughs of air traffic controllers began taking effect.

This means the FAA will be able to shift funds so that the number of air traffic controllers on duty no longer needs to be reduced in order to satisfy sequestration.

The Post strike is widely considered one of the preludes to the Reagan administration's destruction of the air traffic controllers union, PATCO, in 1981.

Earlier this year, thousands of air traffic controllers had to be furloughed, snarling air traffic.

Those who are in favor of air traffic control privatization, however — including the National Association of Air Traffic Controllers and most major airlines — say air traffic management is too important to be subject to the whims of possible government shutdowns or budgetary fights.

The airlines merged just over a year ago, but the deal was sealed in the eyes and ears of air traffic controllers Thursday when Virgin America lost its colorful call sign that conjures up its California roots: «Redwood.»

In early 2017 two large passenger planes and a smaller corporate jet practiced landing, one right after the other, without the usual constant help of an air traffic controller.

It is the responsibility of the air traffic controller to redirect the pilots to avoid storms, other planes, and more.

It's the nautical version of an air traffic controller.

The premise here is simple — you play the role of an air traffic controller, who also seems to have the god - like power of redirecting planes at your will by simply drawing their flight paths so that they can land safely at the proper landing strip.

Seeking to obtain the exciting and challenging position of air traffic controller, in order to utilize my vast experience and skills in maintaining and achieving efficiency and a safe flow of air traffic throughout the airspace of the nation.

Not exact matches

A recording of the conversations between the pilot and air traffic controllers indicated confusion over which direction the plane should land.

Over the course of the summer, air - traffic controllers in the U.K. will likely manage 770,000 flights, which is 40,000 more than last year.

Air - traffic controllers in the United Kingdom warned Friday that there are so many planes in the air that the country's skies are quickly running out of roAir - traffic controllers in the United Kingdom warned Friday that there are so many planes in the air that the country's skies are quickly running out of roair that the country's skies are quickly running out of room.

The pilot of the plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air - traffic controllers he had run out of fuel

Alek Mirkovich, founder of campayn.com, once thought becoming an air traffic controller was a great idea, but then he took a tour of where he would actually be working.

Without authority to borrow money, President Barack Obama's administration would face immediate choices on which bills to pay: Federal employee salaries or Medicare recipients, out - of - work residents who receive federal unemployment benefits or investors who expect to receive interest payments on the country's current debt, veterans or air traffic controllers.

had hoped to find both the necessary votes and time on the House floor for consideration of a bill that would spin the nation's air traffic controllers and thousands of people working on modernizing the aviation system into a private nonprofit corporation.

For the record, Alphabet launched the balloons from its Nevada launch site to Puerto Rico with the help of aviation authorities and air traffic controllers under the Puerto Rican government.

Captain Shults calmly relayed details about the crisis to air traffic controllers, and passengers commended her handling of the situation.

On a cognitive level, growing up in a chaotic and unstable environment — and experiencing the chronic elevated stress that such an environment produces — disrupts the development of a set of skills, controlled by the prefrontal cortex, known as executive functions: higher - order mental abilities that some researchers compare to a team of air - traffic controllers overseeing the working of the brain.

In 2001, the ICAO Assembly agreed that a balance of at - source restrictions, planning controls, operating restrictions and noise abatement practices by pilots and air traffic controllers would form the appropriate methods to address aviation noise.

A lack of staff to train air traffic controllers means it can take six years — twice the norm — for the new hires to become fully certified at the busiest U.S. control facilities, according to industry experts and government reports.

And if the images can be continually updated with real - time data, such 3 - D visuals could provide air traffic controllers with dynamic maps of planes in the air, or help researchers track satellites to ensure they don't collide.

In particular, he points to the unpredictability of the response by pilots and air traffic controllers to warnings from ACAS, the airborne collision avoidance systems.

Gradually being deployed worldwide, ADS - B improves upon the radar - based systems that air traffic controllers and pilots rely on to find out the location and velocity of aircraft in their vicinity.

Science journal editors are the air traffic controllers of the science world.

This four - part documentary series glosses over our industrial woes, but through a combination of aerial footage, striking data visualizations, and interviews with power grid technicians, air traffic controllers, and others who work behind the scenes, it provides an intimate look at the hidden systems that we rely on every day.

With fewer experienced controllers in place, those remaining are forced to work overtime with fewer and shorter breaks and less time between shifts in order to handle the volume of air traffic.

A recent NTSB report revealed that sleep - deprived air traffic controllers played a role in at least four near - fatal incidents on the nation's runways since 2001, and the controller on duty in one of the worst U.S. accidents in five years — the 2006 crash of a Comair flight that killed 49 people in Lexington, Kentucky — was working on only two hours of sleep.

But the growth in air traffic, coupled with slipups by pilots and controllers, has sparked a spike in anticollision warnings aboard the planes, especially in dense traffic areas such as Southern California, where the number of potentially serious controller errors rose 77 percent from 2007 to 2008.

The system is also burdened by an acute shortage of experienced air traffic controllers, who have been locked in a bitter contract dispute with the FAA and retiring in record numbers, leaving those who remain exhausted and overworked.

With radar, pilots rely on air traffic controllers and a see - and - avoid strategy that literally entails looking out the window to avoid wandering in the way of — or colliding with — other aircraft on the runways.

ADS — B — first conceived in the early 1990s by the FAA and a variety of government agencies and businesses that build and / or rely heavily on airplanes, including NASA and delivery giant United Parcel Service (UPS)-- relies on the proactive communication between global positioning system (GPS) satellites and transponders placed on board aircraft to inform pilots, other aircraft and air traffic controllers about an aircraft's location, identity, speed and altitude.

Meteorologists, oceanographers, remote - sensing specialists, and air - quality experts — not to mention a few air traffic controllers — had all gotten their first overhead view of an Asian dust storm moving across the Pacific Ocean to North America.

Air traffic controllers on both sides of the Atlantic are also concerned about TCAS 2 (Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System) because it raises the problem of who is in control in a complex and fast - moving envirtraffic controllers on both sides of the Atlantic are also concerned about TCAS 2 (Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System) because it raises the problem of who is in control in a complex and fast - moving envirTraffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System) because it raises the problem of who is in control in a complex and fast - moving environment.

Pilots, air traffic controllers, aircraft designers, and other aviation experts are being charged to solve this incoming category of issues by designing fuel - efficient vehicles, overhauling takeoff and landing schedules, and raising the price of air travel.

Hundreds of flights were delayed this week after the FAA furloughed air traffic controllers, setting off a political storm.

April 26, 2013 • Following a week of complaints about sequester - caused flight delays, Congress quickly pushed through a bill letting the FAA shift around its budget to end furloughs for air traffic controllers.

Ahead of its release month, the first trailer and poster have arrived online for the upcoming thriller 2:22 which stars Michiel Huisman, Teresa Palmer, and Sam Reid; check them out below... New York City air traffic controller Dylan Branson (MICHIEL HUISMAN) is the embodiment of a guy at the top of his game, until one -LSB-...]

«Sully» would be a better film if it paid more attention to the rescue workers, the air traffic controllers, or even the passengers involved, but doing so would downplay Sully as a New American Saint, and violate the cinematic purpose of repackaging our worst fears.

As tremendously cocksure rival air traffic controllers, John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton amplify the already provokingly chargedatmosphere of «Pushing Tin,» a caustic, chaotic, dark comedythat takes place in the killer - stress world of the Long Island's...

Eastwood doesn't give up the goods easily, holding back the sequence until nearly an hour into the film's lean 96 - minute runtime, but he revisits the harrowing event multiple times, revealing new details and the different perspectives of everyone involved, from the pilots, to the passengers, to the flight crew, to the air traffic controller, to the U.S. Coast Guard rescue teams.

The air traffic controller aspect of the film made for a refreshing change as it's not something often seen.

Chevy plays an air traffic controller named Max, who is on the verge of suffering a life crisis when his girlfriend ends up leaving him.