![]() Also this may surprise you but alot of our supervisors arenot checked out on the sectors. As with any middlemanagment job ( thats what our supervisors are) you don't typicaly find people of our. The second part of your question is a touchy subject. People may not fly anymore but the show would be entertaining. as for the conversations, i belive you could make a great TV show ( think scrubs) called scopes dealing with the day to day mayhem of an enroute facility. Some are Rainman type ( we have one here who's nickname is rainman.) Most are blue collar. Imagine a building full of type-A never wrong people all working together. Hope that helps! if you want more detail I can provide. who then ships you to the ground control who gets you to your gate. he/she then ships you to the local controller who clears your aircraft to land. Then you Arrive at ATL approach control and they get you in line for your landing runway. All the while changing frequencies and sectors, from one controller to the next. you stay in Enroute control all the way to about 50 miles outside of ATL. All the while making sure you don't climb or turn into the path of another Aircraft. I take your Aircraft from departure control and climb you to even higher altitudes and put you on course. Simply we handel all the "enroute" traffic. but are tracking safely away from the airport. For example all departures for ORD depart N,E,S,W and all arrivals come in from the NE,SE,SW,NW.Īt this point you probably are not even "aimed" at your destination. rest assure all traffic in and out of busy airports is very structured. The departure controller starts you on your route of flight and climbs you to the base of his altitude. ![]() In this scenario O'hare approach controls up to 13-15,000ft of airspace in and around ORD MDW etc ( ohare and midway.). Now you have entered the realm of "approach" control they typically control from the ground up to 12,000ft of airspace this varies from one approach to another depending on traffic. up until now everyone has been located in the Tower. This is called a critical phase of flight :). ( at some busier airports there are two or more local one for arrivals and one for departures working diffrent runway's of course.) they ensure that your aircraft can enter and depart the runway without hitting anything. He/She is in charge of the runway's proper. Making sure the pilot gets there without bumping into one of the various other vehicles or planes along the way. A ground controller then taxi's you to the runway. A gate controller gets your from the gate to the taxiways ( at some airports its just the groudn controller). Take a typical flight from Chicago to Atlanta for example. Ok good question I'll try and simplify it. I would like to thank everyone for their questions comments and respect!! Please feel free to ask questions as I am on Reddit daily! we also get paid extra to train new controllers. Extra for sunday's and holiday's/overtime etc. while I am salary I am also hourly we get paid extra for working after 6pm. thats with a 25% cost of living expenditure added in. Level 12 and make about 115,000 a year roughly. Pay for ATC I see alot of questions about this. How to become and Air Traffic Controller. I'm not a english teacher so if my grammer is a bit off forgive me!!! FYI I am not a pilot, so I can't answer pilot questions my wife is however so i'll forward those to her. Ask any questions you may have about air travel. Yes the job is fun yes it can be stressful. ![]()
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