THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH GROUND MOVEMENT CONTROL

Ground movement control (GMC) operations, GMC personnel duties, allocation of parking stands and aircraft delays off-stand, work in progress around the airport, radiotelephone communication problems (between ATC center and ground operations), and delineation of airport areas are discussed. Cases where conventional distinctions between apron, maneuvering areas, and parking areas become blurred are considered. The principal tasks faced by ground movement controllers during busy hours and the most taxing problems encountered when airport surface work (earth moving, construction works, emergency repairs, route markings) is in progress are outlined. Constraints and difficulties of GMC at night or in poor visibility are sketched.

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  International Fed of Air Traffic Controllers' Assn

  Bornheimer Landwehr 57a
  Frankfurt am Main 14,   Germany 
• Publication Date: 1976-11

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 35-38
• Serial:
  • The Controller
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations
  • ISSN: 0010-8073

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air traffic control; Construction management; Disasters and emergency operations; Hazards and emergency operations; Night visibility; Parking; Peak hour traffic; Personnel; Radio telephone; Seismicity; Taxiing; Traffic delays
• Old TRIS Terms: Airside design and operations; Aprons; Construction operations
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Construction; Operations and Traffic Management; Society; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00163531
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Aerospace Abstracts
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 28 1977 12:00AM