Air Traffic Control - The Profession
Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. The primary purpose of ATC systems worldwide is to separate aircraft to prevent collisions, to organize and expedite the flow of traffic, and to provide information and other support for pilots when able.
History of Air Traffic Control
By the end of the first decade of powered flight, people began to realize that aircraft, like automobiles, would crash into each other unless some means was developed to control and direct them. At first, because aircraft could not fly at high altitudes, such control was accomplished using simple hand signals. Later, control was exercised through radio communication.
Air Traffic Routes in SRI LANKA
Air Traffic Services (ATS) Route Chart is the map of what the SRILANKAN Air Traffic Controllers control. It details the current ATS Routes, including Controlled Airspaces, Danger, Restricted and Prohibited Areas within the Srilankan Airspace.
Computerization and the future
Despite years of effort and the billions of dollars that have been spent on computer software designed to assist air traffic control, success has been largely limited to improving the tools at the disposal of the controllers such as computer-enhanced radar. It is likely that in the next few decades, future technology will make the controller more of system manager overseeing decisions made by automated systems and manually intervening to resolve situations not handled well by the computers, rather than being automated out of existence altogether.
However there are problems envisaged with technology that normally takes the controller out of the decision loop but requires the controller to step back in to control in exceptional situations: air traffic control is a skill that has to be kept current by regular practice. This itself may prove to be the largest stumbling block to the introduction of highly automated air traffic control systems.
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