Nov 5, 2024 · Think you've got what it takes to be an Air Traffic Controller? Keep reading to learn what you can expect from the application process and training to the hours, pay, and benefits of an exciting new career.

Feb 4, 2025 · Air Traffic Controllers must requalify in an annual medical examination. Controllers incurring illness, injury, or incapacitation at any time between the annual examinations must be medically cleared before returning to air traffic control duty. For more information, see Individual Occupational Requirements of Air Traffic Control Series 2152.

Apr 19, 2024 · Air traffic controllers work in towers at airports and radar rooms at FAA facilities nationwide. Their job is to separate planes, navigate them through weather and ensure that everyone gets to their destinations safely.

Aug 29, 2024 · Air traffic controllers coordinate the movement of aircraft to maintain safe distances between them. Work Environment. Air traffic controllers work in control towers, approach control facilities, or en route centers. Their work can be stressful because maximum concentration is required at all times. Night, weekend, and rotating shifts are common.

May 12, 2022 · Air traffic controllers can make six figures, but they train hard to get there. Learn how to become an air traffic controller in our step-by-step guide. Many air traffic controllers have an associate degree in air traffic management.

Jan 31, 2025 · Air traffic controllers in the US have been warning about the impact of low staffing levels for years, submitting anonymous reports to NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System.

Feb 4, 2025 · It’s causing problems not just for the air traffic controllers that remain but the flying public at large. And it won’t get better any time soon. The Federal Aviation Administration, which...

Jan 31, 2025 · More than 90 percent of the country’s 313 air traffic control facilities operate below the Federal Aviation Administration’s recommended staffing levels, according to an analysis of staffing ...

Air traffic controllers (ATCs) are people responsible for the coordination of traffic in their assigned airspace. Typically stationed in air traffic control centers or control towers, they monitor the position, speed, and altitude of aircraft and communicate with the pilots via radio.

Jan 31, 2025 · The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is pictured, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, in Arlington, Va., near the wreckage of a mid-air collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet in the Potomac River.