Air Traffic Control Industrial Relations: Great Britain and the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Pamela Marett ◽  
Janet Winters
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Air Traffic

Miscommunication between pilots and air traffic control

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kent Jones
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Pilot Error ◽  
Air Traffic Controllers ◽  
The Common

Language confusion is a frequent cause of pilot error. Although English was made the common language of world aviation in 1951, miscommunication and crashes in which communication was a contributing factor are common. Standard phrases used by air traffic controllers in the United States contain numerous confusing elements. These include ambiguities, misnomers and illogicalities. Phrases are not derivations of a master plan as they should be. The inability of English to express specific directions to pilots without confusion disqualifies it as a language for permanent use by aviation.

Siting of Landing Strips for International Aircraft Movements in Great Britain

1950 ◽  
Vol 54 (476) ◽  
pp. 541-543
Author(s):  
William Courtenay
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Airline Pilot ◽  
Commercial Airline ◽  
Twin Rotor

Air travel at 600 m.p.h. to 650 m.p.h. in the next decade and the use of multi-seat twin rotor helicopters on internal air routes to help to solve terminal delay problems, bring in their train growing problems of Air Traffic Control. Full use of high speed civil transports and helicopters does not seem practicable within the British Isles unless the problem of the siting of landing strips is reviewed and unless ideas on this subject are recast in the light of growing experience.To the commercial airline pilot Great Britain is indeed a “tight little island.” It will appear smaller yet when the de Havilland Comet jet air liner operates to time-tables of approximately double the speed of most of the existing schedules of today.

Air Traffic Control and its Influence on the Navigation Problem

1959 ◽  
Vol 63 (579) ◽  
pp. 175-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. O. Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Single Issue ◽  
Satisfactory Description ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The One ◽  
New System

Navigation used to be solely concerned with the safest and most expedient means of directing an aircraft to its objective—either the destination airport or a military target. Nowadays, especially in civil aviation but increasingly in military transport operations, the need to comply with air traffic control (A.T.C.) procedures is tending to dominate both the technique of navigation and the kind of navigation aids used.In recent years great stress has been placed on the problem of air traffic control and now, with the imminent arrival of jet air liners in large numbers, the consternation is even greater. Reactions to the problem vary, so that on the one hand there are the down-to-earth realists who see no immediate prospects of any revolutionary improvement in A.T.C. methods; on the other hand there are the optimists who already speak of the present A.T.C. system as though it is a thing of the past and talk of the “ new “ system which will replace it when the jets arrive. Despite the most extensive studies of the problem, such as that recently undertaken by the Curtis Presidential Committee in the United States, no entirely satisfactory description of the “ new “ system of A.T.C. has materialised. Meanwhile the penalities of restriction and delay of jet aircraft by air traffic control need no emphasis, but to give one example, the Comet I, when operated by B.O.A.C., regularly arrived at London Airport with at least two hours fuel as diversion and traffic reserve. The weight of this fuel was of a similar order to the total payload of the aeroplane, so it will be realised that economic operation of jet aircraft can stand or fall on this single issue of air traffic control.

International Civil Aviation Organization

1960 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 662-664
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
International Civil Aviation Organization ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Navigation Service

The 39th session of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) extended from January 27 to April 14, 1960, during which time the Council considered several questions on air navigation, air transport, and technical assistance, as well as administrative and legal matters. In the field of air navigation, the two subjects that aroused the most interest were Amendment 35 to Annex 10 (Aeronautical Telecommunications), proposing new specifications for distance-measuring equipment, and the Secretariat's reports on investigations of major deficiencies in air navigation facilities and services on the main international air routes. After a debate in which the United States, the Netherlands, and the Federal Republic of Germany strongly supported the aforementioned amendment, with Australia, Canada, the Union of South Africa, and the United Kingdom opposing it, the following were adopted, to be approved or rejected by member states by September 1, 1960: 1) the new Standard making VOR (omnidirectional radio range) the standard aid for air traffic control and other operational purposes en route as well as in terminal areas; 2) the new Standard requiring the installation of DME (distancemeasuring equipment) as a complement to VOR where, for operational or air traffic control reasons, there was need for more precise navigation service than that provided by VOR; and 3) amendments relating to the “protection date” for VOR and DME. To determine whether joint financing might be a possible remedy for specific deficiencies in air navigation facilities and services, the Council established a working body to study the Secretariat's reports and present its findings to the June session of the Council.

Air Traffic Control and the Relative Position Indicator

1958 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-69
Author(s):  
R. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Collision Warning ◽  
Post War ◽  
Position Indicator ◽  
Control Service ◽  
Warning Device

The post-war development of air transport has temporarily out-paced the ability of the air traffic control service to provide for safe conduct which is always expeditious, and it has certainly out-moded the concept of visual avoidance. To alleviate the situation in the areas of high-density traffic in the United States, the Air Transport Association of America outlined a requirement for an airborne collision warning device.

The American Plan for Air Traffic Control: A Description of SC31

1951 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. O. Fraser
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic Control ◽  
Air Traffic ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Special Committee ◽  
States Government ◽  
Technical Division ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Cooperative Association

In May 1948 the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics, a cooperative association of United States government and industrial air telecommunication agencies, issued a report outlining a comprehensive scheme for the development of air traffic control facilities in U.S.A. for the next fifteen years. This report was prepared by a committee set up by the R.T.C.A., Special Committee 31, and it is generally known as the SC31 Report. It was the result of a study undertaken at the request of the Technical Division of the Air Coordinating Committee, an inter-departmental committee established by the Secretaries of State, War, Navy and Commerce, and directed by the President to examine aviation problems of mutual concern and to develop and recommend integrated policies and actions to be taken for their solution.

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