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Also, we’re only allowed to work for 2 hours and 20 minutes at a stretch, before we have to take a compulsory break, during which we can relax at a PC or at the pool table, or we can work out in our gym. If things tend to get too busy, we split the airspace up into sectors that we handle with several colleagues. While we’re at work, we also keep a close eye on ourselves and our immediate colleagues. To become an air traffic controller, you have to complete a comprehensive selection procedure, during which your coping skills and all sorts of other abilities are tested. If that were really the case, we’d all be sitting at home in no time. All air traffic controllers are always stressed The remaining LVNL staff mainly work at our offices in Schiphol Oost.Ĥ.
There are also air traffic controllers stationed at the airports in Groningen, Rotterdam and Maastricht. This includes air traffic departing from and approaching Dutch airports, but also traffic passing through Dutch airspace on its way to Brussels or Dusseldorf, for example. This area is only used to handle traffic at the airport itself and within a 15-kilometer radius of the airport.Īll other air traffic operating within our national airspace is handled by the radar centre at Schiphol East. Schiphol tower’s upper observation cupola can accommodate a maximum of eight people. The radar screens then ensure that we can keep doing our job.Īir Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL) employs around 900 people, including around 250 air traffic controllers. This means we can handle less traffic when the weather is poor. Because we can’t see the aircraft and they can’t see each other, or even the taxiways on really bad days, we insist on bigger distances and intervals between aircraft than we would on a nice, clear day. This is also one of the reasons why air traffic is delayed when visibility is poor at the airport. In fact, we can handle more traffic if we can see it directly than if we have to rely on technology. In short, we sit staring out of the window a lot. We do have radar screens up in the tower, but we mainly handle traffic based on what we see from our window. Air traffic controllers never look out the window. In short, we use our radio to tell pilots where they have to go and when.Ģ. Air traffic controllers, on the other hand, supervise flying and taxiing air traffic and ensure that the aircraft are kept at safe distances from one another. Marshallers use “ping-pong bats”, flags or light signals to direct aircraft to their correct position at the gate or any other parking bay. Many people don’t know the difference between an aircraft marshaller and an air traffic controller. So you’re an air traffic controller? That means you’re out there waving around your ping-pong bats, right?
I’ll be busting a half dozen of them in this blog.ġ. There are various myths that are completely inaccurate.
Whenever I mention that I work at Air Traffic Control, I’m reminded that people have strange ideas as to what my job entails. Save Saved Save for later Saved for later
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