Block 3 - Day 1

Front 1

ATC Services

Back 1

The primary purpose of the ATC system:

-Prevent collisions between aircraft operating in the ATC system

-Organize and expedite the flow of traffic

-Provide support for National Security and Homeland Defense

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Additional Services

Back 2

-In addition to its primary function, the ATC system has the capability to provide (with certain limitations) additional services

-Provide additional services to the extent possible, contingent only upon higher priority duties and other factors including volume of traffic, frequency congestion, quality of radar, and workload

Front 3

Additional services continued

Back 3

-Additional services are not optional on the part of the controller, but rather is required when the work situation permits

-Additional services include, but are not limited to:

1. Traffic Advisories

2. Vectors when requested by the pilot

3. Altitude deviation information, A/C with a valid Mode C

4. Advisories that traffic is no longer a factor

5. Weather and chaff information

6. Weather assistance

7. Bird activity information

8. Holding pattern surveillance, when depicted

Front 4

Radios

Back 4

Types of radios systems available to ATC:

-FM nets: The radio net used to talk to personnel and vehicles. These nets are located on your control tower consoles

-LMR: Hand held radios used to talk to personnel/vehicles

-UHF/VHF radios: ATC radios used to communicate with aircraft

-Backup UHF/VHF radios: Backup radios used when primary radio fails

Front 5

Landlines

Back 5

-ATC facilities must have direct and reliable landline communications

-Telephone line and landline will terminate in a communication key system in the facility

1. Direct landlines

2. Two-digit lines

3. Four-digit lines

4. Shout lines

Front 6

Intercoms

Back 6

-Intercoms allow controllers to key up another position within the same complex and talk or monitor

1. Approach to arrival

2. Watch Supervisor to approach

3. Local controller to ground

3. Approach to final control

-CCTLRs will provide specific guidelines for intercom use in the facility OI

-According to the OSAR OI 13-204

4.5 Controllers shall use intercoms for intra-facility coordination to the maximum extent possible

Front 7

Radio Communication

Back 7

Areas where radio communications cannot be received/transmitted are "radio blind spot"

Front 8

Pilot acknowledgement/read back

Back 8

1. Ensure acknowledgement of clearance/control instructions

2. Pilots may acknowledge using: "WILCO", "AFFIRMATIVE", or other words or remarks

3. Ensure the read back is correct

4. If incorrect of incomplete, make corrections

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Radio Message Format

Back 9

-Use the following format for radio communications with an A/C on initial contact

1. Identification of A/C

2. Identification of ATC unit

3. Message, if any

4. The word "over" if required

-Subsequent radio transmission shall use the same format except the identification of the ATC unit may be ommited

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Abbreviated Transmission

Back 10

-Use the identification prefix and the last 3 digits or letters of the aircraft identification after communications have been established

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Interphone Transmission Priority

Back 11

1. Emergency

2. Clearance and control instructions

3. Movement and control messages

-Progress reports

-Departure or arrival reports

- Flight plans

4. Movement of VFR messages

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Interphone message termination

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-Two letter operating initials are used to identify controllers for recording purposes

-Operating initials used with operating forms, interphone contacts, marking of recorder tapes, cassettes, digital audiotapes, and other ATC records

-A list of controllers initials will be maintained by the CCTLR

-No two controllers in the same facility will have the same operating initials

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Team position responsibilities

Back 13

-There is no division of responsibilities regarding position operations. The tasks to be completed remain the same regardless of the amount of people working. The team, as a whole, has responsibility for the safe and efficient operation of their facility of sector

-The intent of the team concept is not to hold the team accountable for the action of the individual in the event of an operational error

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Radar Position Responsibilities

Back 14

-Ensure separation

-Initiate control instructions

-Monitor and operate radios

-Accept and initiate automated handoffs

-Scan radar display, correlate with flight progress strop information

-Ensure strip marking is completed on instructions and clearances you issue or receive

-Maintain awareness of facility/sector activities

-Accept and initiate non-automated

-Coordinate, including point outs`

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SWEEPS

Back 15

Special flight/operations

Weather

Equipment status

Emergency situations

Potential sector overload

Suspicious aircraft/pilot activity

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Duty Priority

Back 16

Give first priority:

-Separating Aircraft

-Issuing safety alerts

-Good judgment shall be used in prioritizing all other duties

Provide support to national security and homeland defense activities to include, but not be limited to, reporting of suspicious and/or unusual aircraft/pilot activities

Provide additional services to the extent possible, contingent only upon higher priority duties and other factors including limitations of radar, volume of traffic, frequency congestion, and workload

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Operational Priorities

Back 17

Provide air traffic control service on a "first-come, first-served" basis as circumstances permit

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Special Handling

Back 18

-Clear the aircraft according to pilot request as soon as practicable. Do not ask the pilot to deviate from his/her planned action except to preclude an emergency

-Suggest flight path adjustments, as required, for any aircraft which will enter or penetrate an area in which a flight inspection function is being performed

-Provide special handling, as required, to FAA aircraft conducting flight inspections using the call sign "Flight Check"

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Situational Awareness

Back 19

-Continuous perception of self and aircraft to the dynamic environment of flight, threats, mission, and the ability to forecast, the execute tasked based on that perception