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2. the ground-based personnel and equipment concerned with controlling and monitoring air traffic within a particular area. DEFINITION

3. To become a air traffic controller you must have the following skills. ATC motivation; conscientiousness and rule adherence; decisiveness and confidence; emotional stability; error awareness; information processing capability; numerical awareness; open to learning and development; planning, decision making and problem solving; spatial awareness; team working You must go to college for 1 and a half to two years.. QUALIFICATIONS

5. keeping radio and/or radar contact with aircraft; directing the movement of aircraft en route or at an airport; instructing aircraft to climb or descend and allocating final cruising level; providing information to aircraft about weather conditions; making sure that minimum distances are maintained between planes; handling unexpected events, emergencies and unsch controlling movements onto and off runways; handling the ground movement of planes around the terminals; handling the ground movement of vehicles around the airport. eduled traffic. DUTIES

6. air traffic controllers are needed 24 hours a day (not the same guy for that whole stretch, fortunately), it takes major string pulling to get a decent shift. WORK SCHEDULE

7. Air traffic controllers earn relatively high pay and have good benefits. Median annual earnings of air traffic controllers in May 2006 were $117,240. The middle 50 percent earned between $86,860 and $142,210. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $59,410, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $145,600. The average annual salary, excluding overtime earnings, for air traffic controllers in the Federal Government—which employs 90 percent of all controllers—was $122,220 in May 2006. SALARY

8. An airport obviously. LOCATION

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11. Traffic in the air is controlled from a tower and can be classified into three general functional groups: ground control, local or air control and clearance delivery (which coordinates taxiing). Read more: http://www.ehow.com/facts_4569482_air-traffic- control.html#ixzz2jIdN04fm INTERESTING INFORMATION