Terminal (Tower) Controller

Nature of the work

ATC Centre. Air Traffic Control Specialist

ATCO’S WORKLOAD

UNIT 5

Topics for Discussion

Answer the questions.

1. What is the largest airport in Ukraine?

2. Where is Boryspil Airport located?

3. Why does Ukraine become more and more attractive?

4. When was the new terminal of Boryspil Airport opened?

5. What does the airport consist of?

6. What does the airport infrastructure include?

7. How many passenger departures per hour is the refurbished International Airport capable of handling?

8. Is there coach service between Boryspil and Kyiv?

9. Why can birds cause crashes?

10. What are the new ideas of the airport development?

1. What do almost all airports have in common?

2. What do you know about the structure of an airport?

3. Airport vehicles. Name them. What are they used for?

4. The history and devepolment of airports.

5. Airport design. What do you know about it?

6. Airport operations.

7. The biggest international airport (airports).

8. Importance of signs, lighting and markings at airports.

9. Air transportation of baggage.

10. The role of TWs in the airport structure.

11. What factors does the airport location depended on?

12. The role of RWs in the airport infrastructure.

13. Types of airports.

14. Give some reasons for aircraft delays.

15. If you were in charge of some particular airport, what would you do to improve the facilities?

Exercise 5.1.1 Read and translate the text.

An air traffic control specialist (ATCS) is often described as one who provides for the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow or air traffic. It is their function to direct air traffic so it flows smoothly, efficiently and safety above all on the ground and in the air.

Terminal controllers control air traffic at airports and give pilots taxiing and take off instructions, air traffic clearances, and advice based on their own observations and information from the Meteorological Office, air route traffic control centres (ACCs), flight service stations, pilots, and other sources. They provide separation between landing and departing aircraft. They transfer control of aircraft to the ACC controller when the aircraft leaves their airspace, and they receive control of aircraft coming into their airspace from controllers at adjacent facilities. Air traffic controllers must be familiar with the aircraft identification and positions of the aircraft under their control, aircraft types and speed, the location of navigational aids and landmarks in the area. They provide information about weather conditions for specific flights, receive and forward pilot’s flight plans, relay air traffic control instructions, assist pilots in emergency situations, provide airport advisory service, and initiate searchers for missing or overdue aircraft.

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