What does AC stand for?

Air Traffic Controller (USN Rating)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Mike Foote, an air traffic controller who was on duty at the time, estimated that the planes were 10 to 15 feet apart.

Planes pass within 15 feet at L.A. airport

An air traffic controller transferred the flight to the computer of another air traffic controller.

United States: FAA testing air traffic control system in SLC

The pilot of a plane involved in a mid-air collision over the Hudson River read back the wrong radio frequency to an air traffic controller but wasn't corrected by the controller, a federal safety official said Wednesday.

Feds: Pilot in crash had wrong radio frequency

An understaffed control tower at LAX means longer work hours and more duties for fatigued air-traffic controllers, leading to an increased likelihood for serious mistakes on the runway, according to a report by the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.

CONTROLLERS LINK LAX MISTAKES TO STAFF SHORTAGE

These include air traffic controllers brought in due to a Europe-wide shortage,aircraft engineers, traffic engineers, transport planners and electricity lineworkers.

Terror fear over foreign air controllers

Although there have been fewer airline crashes than normal in recent years, the union representing the nation’s air traffic controllers says an overworked and understaffed work force will inevitably result in disaster.

Flight Controllers Press For Independent Review Of Staffing Needs

The author treats the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, and strikes from that of the New England shoemakers (1860) to the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1980).

Labor relations

Byline: STEPHEN MOYES FAULTY computers can make an air traffic controller think a jet heading for Glasgow is going to Cardiff, it was claimed yesterday.

AIR CONTROL CAN'T TELL GLASGOW FROM CARDIFF; Staff struggle to read ...