Air Traffic Controller 1 C

Presents an overview of the AC rating to include aviation weather; air navigation and aids to air navigation; military aircraft characteristics and performance; airport lighting, markings, and equipment; air traffic control equipment; airspace classification; flight assistance services; general flight rules and IFR/SVFR control procedures; control tower operations; radar operations; shipboard operations; and facility operations. Reviews air traffic control operator technical knowledge with emphasis on technical knowledge associated with supervisory performance such as air traffic control training certification, plans, reports, flight inspections, and required resources as well as aircraft accidents and incidents.

This is a historical facts report and commentary on the development of the German Air Traffic Control Centre RHEIN CONTROL as formerly operated by the United States Air Force in Europe (USAFE) and the former German Federal Administration for Air Navigation Services (BFS), assisted by the German Air Force (GAF) at Birkenfeld-Nahe and Frankfurt/Main in Germany. RHEIN CONTROL was and still is an upper airspace air traffic control (ATC) centre, formerly responsible for South Germany only, but now also covering all of former East Germany (Berlin UIR). This report is written by a former air traffic controller and air traffic control expert, who meanwhile actively spent 50 years in the ATC profession worldwide, and has had first served 25 years with the German Federal Administration for Air Navigation Services (Bundesanstalt für Flugsicherung) in upper airspace area control operations, ATC planning and experimentation.

Presents the criteria and computation methods used in determining eligibility of terminal locations for VFR tower establishment and discontinuance based on economic analysis of the costs and benefits of airport traffic control towers. It also summarizes the results of an application of these methods to 4,070 airports in the U.S. based on current forecasts of future aviation activity, comparing the present value of VFR tower benefits at a site with the present value of VFR tower costs over a 15-year time frame. Tables and references.