After mastering aviation basics and terminology, they’ll eventually spend months in front of the school’s air traffic control simulator, built to mirror an actual tower, where they will ...

After mastering aviation basics and terminology, they’ll eventually spend months in front of the school’s air traffic control simulator, built to mirror an actual tower, where they will practice with ...

Graves advocated for $12.5 billion in air traffic control modernization as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The money would fund new towers, radar systems and facilities, as well as hiring ...

Embry‑Riddle student Hailee Williamson, who is earning her bachelor's degree in air traffic management, trains in the university’s tower lab. [Credit: Embry‑Riddle/Bill Fredette-Huffman ...

SUNY Schenectady purchased this simulator of a commercial air traffic control tower to train students. The college has just been named by the FAA as one of six where students can go directly to ...

ROCHESTER — As U.S. airports struggle with a shortage of air traffic ... for the control towers, not local airports. The FAA responded to questions about the Rochester tower on Monday and ...

A car drives by a control tower at terminal B of Newark Liberty Airport, Newark, N.J., May 7, 2025. Before applying to become an air traffic control specialist, a step in the process that is not ...

The FAA also is exploring the use of remote and virtual towers, which allow air traffic services to be provided from a location other than the local control tower. This concept has been ...

The Philadelphia tower, which houses both airport air traffic control and TRACON (short for Terminal Radar Approach Control) facilities, is short about 51 employees from the agency's goal based on ...

There are two main types of air traffic facilities: control towers and radar. Anyone who has flown on a plane has likely seen a control tower near the runways, with 360 degrees of tall glass ...

experienced back-to-back air traffic control outages. Earlier this month, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it was installing more Tower Simulation Systems across the nation so it ...