Sentence examples for approach control from inspiring English sources

It seems that FAA managers at the Dallas-Fort Worth Terminal Approach Control misclassifed mistakes by controllers as pilot errors or non-events.

The crew of American Flight 686, which had acknowledged its takeoff clearance from Kennedy 93 seconds after Flight 587 did, told a controller at the New York Terminal Radar Approach Control, or Tracon, "O.K., just to let you know, we saw a huge, tremendous amount of black smoke, south of Long Island".

Mr. Harten, who has worked as an air traffic controller at New York's Terminal Radar Approach Control center in Westbury, on Long Island, for all of his 10 years on the job, testified after opening statements by Captain Sullenberger; the first officer, Jeffrey B. Skiles; and the three flight attendants on the Airbus A320 aircraft — Donna Dent, Doreen Welsh and Sheila Dail.

The conventional AFM controller provides the functions of coarse approach control for the tip and high-voltage amplifiers for the tube scanner.

Captain Sullenberger acknowledged, and instantly the controller, in a windowless radar room at the New York Terminal Radar Approach Control on Long Island, used a land line to reach the control tower.

Traditional approach control using stacks (see below) placed a heavy burden on the airport traffic controllers to monitor many planes in the air.

Significant factors affecting the BMV intersection collision severity included the interaction between roadway and approach-control type, the existence of partial crosswalks and bike signs, and the cyclist's gender and age.

Under the current system, if a thunderstorm rolls in over an approach to Newark International Airport, the problem is first confronted by a controller at the Terminal Radar Approach Control, known as the Tracon, in Westbury.

Meanwhile controllers in the tower at Logan and at the Terminal Radar Approach Control, which handles planes as they approach or leave the airport, were using radar data from the Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center, in Nashua, N.H.

These Terminal Radar Approach Control facilities, known as Tracons, guide airplanes on their final approach within 30 to 50 miles of the airports, providing instructions for pilots regarding altitude, direction and runway heading and to make sure there is enough space between flights.

The confounding influence of inhibitory build-up during the control (long trajectory) is likely, if anything, to speed up the rate at which responses to stimuli commencing within the receptive field approach 'control' levels.