Talk:Air traffic control
From Academic Kids
Could someone please add an explanation of air traffic control terminology, i.e. 'Heavy' and 'Flight Level' and other code words? I don't know enough about ATC to know what's useful and is not, and it would be handy to have now that several airlines are now allowing passengers to listen in on pilots' radio traffic. A subpage might be warranted -- "Things to listen for when listening to controllers talk to pilots."Karlkatzke
The 'alternative view' was submitted by shaunwall@yahoo.com former ATCO (1964-1988) Mon June 02 1345Z. Will attempt to merge. Pcb21 16:52 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Consider Revising
Simple physics dictate the amount of traffic that can land at an airport in a given amount of time.
-Very Vauge....sepration requirements are weather, type, aproach in use, airspace, locality dependant.
-"SIMPLE PHYICS" has little to do it, 747 could land in formation like a pair of Thunderbirds. The regulations and requirments have much more to do with trafic capacity.
IFR rules that require larger separation takeoff and landing needing to be separated by X seconds so sepration will be legal after the missed aproach.
-aircraft type (wake turbulance avoidance),
-weather (visiablity and wind),
-enviromental factors / noise abadance / local goverment issues
-approach layout.
Pruning and Branching out
This article is getting very long and text-heavy, with seemingly endless blocks of text. Besides pruning and condensing, I think it could be vastly improved if we (a) add some pictures, and maybe more subheadings to help the layout; (b) branch it out into sub-articles. Specifically, areas like TRACON and possibly even EnRoute Control could easily be summarized in a far shorter space, and yet have the details preserved in a sub article using the Main Article: TRACON under headings format. I'm pretty busy these days, but that's where I'm focusing my efforts. -Lommer | talk 03:53, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
