Occupational Profile

Occupational Profile: Control air traffic on and within vicinity of airport and movement of air traffic between altitude sectors and control centers according to established procedures and policies. Authorize, regulate, and control commercial airline flights according to government or company regulations to expedite and ensure flight safety.

Duties and Responsibilities

Air traffic controller is one of the most important jobs in the aviation industry to ensure efficient, safe, and practical global air travel from day to day. Air traffic controllers in as simple terms as possible are the eye and ears for pilots to navigate through the skies. They guide pilots in and out of the airports, and through the open airspace to ensure that there are

Some of the most important areas that these air traffic controllers have to mange include ground control, air control, flight information, clearance deliver, approaching terminal, flight traffic mapping, radar coverage, traffic, weather, and radar coverage. Each and every one of these steps are crucial every flight that leaves the airport. Many different air traffic controllers have to work together to achieve one common goal of getting passengers and cargo from place to place safely and it really does take a team effort. At some smaller airports, there may be fewer air traffic controllers to manage multiple jobs, however, at many bigger airports you have multiple controllers to manage the planes getting read to take off and making sure they are aligned orderly and on the right runways. Then you have to have a controller to help them navigate through the sky and at some point in time, trade off the planes to other traffic controllers when entering into another

You do not even have to go to an accredited school as long as you have job experience and you pass the FAA exam. You can go to Oklahoma to the FAA training center for air traffic controllers to get government training. One hiring avenue is VRA, which is basically the veterans, act that hires a lot of controllers that come out of service or armed service. Someone that doesn’t go through the military can figuratively speaking is hired off the street without any military or prior aviation experience. If an individual passes all of the required test and the FAA hires you, you are then sent to the academy or air traffic controlling school where training will qualify you at the end for your Air Traffic Controllers license. From this license you are able to get sub qualifications for different specialties to make you a better candidate for higher paying jobs. Some of these specialties include procedural control, radar, approaching, tower, non-radar, en route control, and a few others. Other restrictions to be considered for this job entail being younger than thirty years old when you first start training and most controllers must retire by the time they are fifty-six years old. If you are applying here in the United States, you must be a United States citizen. For prior military applicants you can start no later than your thirty-first birthday. Applicant