Air traffic control

Air traffic control

An in-airport service that facilitates the safe and orderly movement of aircrafts within and between airports, achieved by interpreting data from radar and weather devices, and by maintaining contact with pilots.

Industry: Aviation

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customs notification service

Aviation; Air traffic control

U.S.: The service provided by ATS to Customs officials at certain "ports of entry" for advance notification of transborder flights. Note: In Canada, this service is provided only to aircraft ...

visual glide slope indicators (VGSI)

Aviation; Air traffic control

Aerodrome facilities, including mechanical and electro-optical devices, providing vertical visual approach slope guidance to aircraft during the approach to landing. Lighting facilities provide this ...

weather information

Aviation; Air traffic control

Information supplied to operators and flight crew members that phenomena, meteorological reports, aerodrome forecasts, forecasts for takeoff, landing forecasts, SIGMET and air reports that are ...

wind cone

Aviation; Air traffic control

(1) An indicator that is in the form of a truncated cone made of fabric and that is not less than 12 ft long and, at the larger end, not less than 3 ft in diameter, so constructed as to give a clear ...