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  2. Air traffic control - Wikipedia

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    Air control (known to pilots as tower or tower control) is responsible for the active runway surfaces. [15] Air control gives clearance for aircraft takeoff or landing, whilst ensuring that prescribed runway separation will exist at all times.

  3. Remote and virtual tower - Wikipedia

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    Remote and virtual tower. Remote and virtual tower (RVT) is a modern concept where the air traffic service (ATS) at an airport is performed somewhere other than in the local control tower. Although it was initially developed for airports with low traffic levels, in 2021 it was implemented at a major international airport, London City Airport ...

  4. Aviation light signals - Wikipedia

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    In the case of a radio failure or aircraft not equipped with a radio, or in the case of a deaf pilot, air traffic control may use a signal lamp (called a "signal light gun" or "light gun" by the FAA [1] [2]) to direct the aircraft. ICAO regulations require air traffic control towers to possess such signal lamps.

  5. Conning tower - Wikipedia

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    A conning tower is a raised platform on a ship or submarine, often armoured, from which an officer in charge can conn (conduct or control) the vessel, controlling movements of the ship by giving orders to those responsible for the ship's engine, rudder, lines, and ground tackle.

  6. Air traffic controller - Wikipedia

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    Air traffic control specialists, abbreviated ATCs, are personnel responsible for the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic in the global air traffic control system. Usually stationed in air traffic control centers and control towers on the ground, they monitor the position, speed, and altitude of aircraft in their assigned airspace ...

  7. List of tallest air traffic control towers in the United States

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    The following table ranks the tallest air traffic control (ATC) towers at airports in the United States. Air traffic control towers are elevated structures for the visual observation and control of the air and ground traffic at an airport. [1] The placement and height of an ATC tower are determined by addressing the many FAA requirements and ...

  8. Aerodrome beacon - Wikipedia

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    Aerodrome beacon. An aerodrome beacon, airport beacon, rotating beacon or aeronautical beacon is a beacon installed at an airport or aerodrome to indicate its location to aircraft pilots at night. An aerodrome beacon is mounted on top of a towering structure, often a control tower, above other buildings of the airport.

  9. Runway edge lights - Wikipedia

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    Many HIRL and MIRL systems have variable intensity controls, whereas the LIRLs normally have one intensity setting. At airports where there is a control tower, the tower will manage the lights to account for visibility and pilot preference, but some airports do not have control towers.

  10. Suvarnabhumi Airport - Wikipedia

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    The airport had the world's tallest free-standing control tower (132.2 metres or 434 feet) from 2006 to 2014, [14] and the world's fourth largest single-building airport terminal (563,000 square metres or 6,060,000 square feet).

  11. Control zone - Wikipedia

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    In aviation, a control zone ( CTR) is a volume of controlled airspace, usually situated below a control area, normally around an airport, which extends from the surface to a specified upper limit, established to protect air traffic operating to and from that airport.