ATC Control Procedures and Responsibilities

Question 1

What is the FAA?

Answer 1

The FAA is the federal agency responsible for the agency of civil
aviation operations in the United States.

Question 2

What are some responsabilities of the FAA?

Answer 2

• Certification of pilots, mechanics, and
  other safety-related air carrier employees.
• Promoting and regulating commercial space transportation and for developing programs to study and mitigate some of the adverse environmental effects of civil aviation.
• Operating the National Airspace System, including civilian and military air navigation and air traffic control.

Question 3

Based on the FAA, what is Air Traffic Control and an Air Traffic Controller?

Answer 3

According to the FAA, air traffic control means a service operated by appropriate authority to promote the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic.

An air traffic controller is a person who is responsible for the safe, orderly, and
expeditious flow of air traffic in the global air traffic control system

Question 4

What are an Air Traffic Controllers’ Duties and Responsabilities?

Answer 4

• Communication
• Air Traffic Management
• Safety Assurance
• Emergency Response
• Navigation Assistance
• Record-Keeping and Documentation
• Training and Mentoring
• Continuous Monitoring and Professional Development

Question 5

Air Traffic Control Responsabilities

What does the Communication duty entails?

Answer 5

Maintaining clear and effective communication.

Question 6

Air Traffic Control Responsabilities

What does the Air Traffic Management duty entails?

Answer 6

Managing the flow of traffic in the assigned airspace.

Question 7

Air Traffic Control Responsabilities

What does the Safety Assurance duty entails?

Answer 7

Ensure safety of aircraft and passengers.

Question 8

Air Traffic Control Responsabilities

What does the Emergency Response duty entails?

Answer 8

Provide guidance and assistance in emergency situations.

Question 9

Air Traffic Control Responsabilities

What does the Navigation Assistance duty entails?

Answer 9

Provide information on most efficient routes, airspace restrictions, and available navigational aids.

Question 10

Air Traffic Control Responsabilities

What does the Record-Keeping and Documentation duty entails?

Answer 10

Maintain detailed records of all communications, clearances, and incidents.

Question 11

Air Traffic Control Responsabilities

What does the Training and Mentoring duty entails?

Answer 11

Experienced controllers mentor, provide guidance, share their knowledge, and help train the next generation.

Question 12

Air Traffic Control Responsabilities

What does the Continuous Monitoring and Professional Development duty entails?

Answer 12

Staying updated on the latest regulations, procedures, and technological advancements in the field.

Question 13

The FAA is designated as the federal agency with authority for the separation of both civilian and military aircraft within the controlled airspace overlying the United States.

To carry out this function, the FAA
divided the airspace into (#) what?

Answer 13

24, Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC)

Question 14

What is the responsability of the ARTCC?

Answer 14

ARTCCs have the ultimate responsibility for separating every IFR and participating VFR aircraft operating within controlled airspace.

The basic function of ARTCCs is to
separate aircraft between airports.

Question 15

What are ARTCC Duties and Responsabilities?

Answer 15

• Route assigment (ARTCC coordinates based on your clearance).
• Verifies/assigns altitude
• Provides traffic separation
• Vectoring Service
• Issues Notice to Air Missions (NOTAMs)
• Provides current weather information as required (SIGMETs, Center Weather Advisories).

Question 16

What are the different types of ARTCC Controllers?

Answer 16

• Flight Data
• Radar
• NonRadar

Question 17

ARTCC Controllers

What are the Flight Data Controller responsabilities?

Answer 17

• Responsible for assisting other controllers who separate the traffic.
• Flight Data Controllers effect coordination with other controllers and **passes along pertinent flight information **to controllers working in other sectors.

Question 18

ARTCC Controllers

What are the Radar Controller responsabilities?

Answer 18

• Radar Controllers issue altitudes, heading, or airspeed changes to keep the aircraft separated and in compliance with various letters of
  agreement and facility directives that may apply to that sector.

Question 19

ARTCC Controllers

What are the NonRadar Controller responsabilities?

Answer 19

• Radar Associates (Nonradar Controllers) assist the radar controller when separating aircraft that do not appear on radar display.
• Nonradar controllers update the flight progress strips to accurately reflect every aircraft’s position, altitude, and route of flight.

Question 20

Complete the sentence:

Air traffic control towers provide ——— using an ——-.

Answer 20

aircraft separation; airport.

Question 21

What is the primary responsability of a control tower?

Answer 21

The primary responsibility of a control tower is to ensure sufficient runway separation exists between aircraft landing and departing.

Question 22

What are other responsabilities of control towers aside from providing sufficient separation.

Answer 22

• Relaying IFR clearances
• Providing taxi instructions
• Assisting airborne aircraft within the immediate vicinity of the airport.

Question 23

What are the General Categories of Control Towers?

Answer 23

• VFR Control Towers
• Non-radar approach Control Towers
• Radar-approach Control Towers

All three types of control towers are responsible for the separation of aircraft taking off or landing at the airport; and the duties of personnel assigned to control towers is subdivided into four categories.

Question 24

General Categories of Control Towers

What are VFR Control Towers responsability?

Answer 24

• VFR controllers are not delegated any significant separation responsibility. The primary responsibility for IFR separation around VFR towers is retained by the ARTCC or has been delegated to another control tower.

Question 25

# General Categories of Control Towers What are Non-Radar-Approach Control Towers responsability?

Answer 25

* Nonradar-approach controllers separate IFR aircraft using nonradar procedures.

Question 26

# General Categories of Control Towers What are Radar-Approach Control Towers responsability?

Answer 26

* Radar-approach controllers are usually housed in a separate room near the base of the tower, and they separate aircraft using radar separation procedures.

Question 27

# General Categories of Control Towers What are the subdivided personnel in all three types of control towers?

Answer 27

* Flight Data * Clearance Delivery * Ground * Local * Approach and Departure

Question 28

What are Flight Data Controllers' duties and responsabilities?

Answer 28

Flight data controllers assist other controllers in the tower and perform the clerical duties inherent in the operation of any facility. Flight data controllers are responsible for obtaining IFR clearances from the ARTCC and relaying them to the clearance delivery controller.

Question 29

How are clearances recieved?

Answer 29

Clearances are recieved over the phone and written dowm, or received automatically and printed mechanically on a flight data input/output (FDIO) device.

Question 30

What are the duties of a clearance delivery controller?

Answer 30

They are responsible for obtaining and realying departure clearences to pilots, amending clearances as necessary, and ensuring the pilots route of flight is accurate.

Question 31

What are the duties of ground controllers?

Answer 31

They are responsible for the safety of all aircraft taxiing on taxiways or inactive runways. They can only exercise authority in areas where traffic can be observed and controlled.

Question 32

What is a runway incursion?

Answer 32

Any occurance involving the incorrect or unauthorized presence of any aircraft, vehicle or person on the designated area for landing and takoff of aircraft.

Question 33

What are some runway incursions contributory factors?

Answer 33

* Weather * Airport Design * Multisimultaneous line ups. * Conditional clearances * Simultaneous use of intersecting runways * Late issue of or late changes to departure * Phraseology * Concurrent use of more than one language for ATC communications * English language competence * Workload * Distractions

Question 34

What are critical areas?

Answer 34

Areas other than the active runway where the ground controller may want aircraft to hold short. These areas include the localizer, glide slope, and precision approach critical areas.

Question 35

What are the duties of a local controller?

Answer 35

Their primary responsability is the arranging of inboung aircraft in a smooth, safe, and orderly flow, while sequencing departure aircraft into this flow.

Question 36

What is Wake Turbulance?

Answer 36

Is a turbulance which is generated by the passage of an aircraft in flight. It will be generated from the point when the nose landing gear of an aircraft leaves the ground takeoff and will cease to be generated when the nose landing gear touches the ground during landing.