Yesterday was International Air Traffic Control day and

[sherbanator]

Google had this on their Spanish Google site.

Way to perpetuate the myth Google!  I wish they had googled first.


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[liverandonions]

What am I missing?

[pandorica]

Oct 22, 2014 10:52:39 GMT -5 liverandonions said:

What am I missing?

I'm glad I'm not alone. I didn't realize there was an air traffic control myth.

[jlt19]

Because it's a man?

[trafficgirl]

Oct 22, 2014 10:52:39 GMT -5 liverandonions said:

What am I missing?

Technically air traffic controllers are the people up in the tower, not those on the ground guiding planes to the terminal.

[shostakovich]

Aren't air traffic controllers the people that work in the towers and communicate with pilots about take-offs and landings? Rather than the guys who do the signaling on the tarmac?

[liverandonions]

Oct 22, 2014 10:54:15 GMT -5 trafficgirl said:

Oct 22, 2014 10:52:39 GMT -5 liverandonions said:

What am I missing?

Technically air traffic controllers are the people up in the tower, not those on the ground guiding planes to the terminal.

Ahhhh, makes sense now. What are those guys called?

[trafficgirl]

Oct 22, 2014 10:55:55 GMT -5 liverandonions said:

Oct 22, 2014 10:54:15 GMT -5 trafficgirl said:

Technically air traffic controllers are the people up in the tower, not those on the ground guiding planes to the terminal.

Ahhhh, makes sense now. What are those guys called?

I have no idea.

I should confess the only reason I know the difference is that when I was in middle school I took a job aptitude test and I got Air Traffic Controller. I had to ask my mom what the heck that was.

[sherbanator]

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These are the 2 types of air traffic controllers there are, radar and tower.   Some facilities do one or the oother and some do both in the same facility.  The guys with glow sticks are ground marshallers.

[orangello]

Totally kind of off topic, but we went to Belize earlier this year and stayed at a small resort on a teeny caye. One of the other couples there was an ATC & his wife, and I was in heaven - FASCINATING to talk to one of those guys! Thanks again for being so patient with me, Tim from OK!

(yes, I'd had several rum & diet cokes. SO WHAT???)

[Eagles]

Haven't they ever seen Pushing Tin?

[sherbanator]

Oct 22, 2014 10:55:29 GMT -5 shostakovich said:

Aren't air traffic controllers the people that work in the towers and communicate with pilots about take-offs and landings? Rather than the guys who do the signaling on the tarmac?

Exactly, and we work radar where we stare at a radar scope and give pilots different headings and altitudes to keep everyone seperated.