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Great video, showing just how busy our skies are. Respect to the controller-Gods!
The weird thing is that if you just sit on a sim and have a go, or watch over a controllers shoulder its not that hard -lots of procedures in place to separate traffic and suchlike (for en route stuff, not departure/arrival) but as soon as each dot turns into a few hundred people the game totally changes. Then unexpected events happen or the radar goes down and you have to do it all by voice. Not a job I'd ever choose!
That's really cool, good find!
It's not that hard?! Mmmm.
It's not that hard?! Mmmm.
Ha ha! Fat fingers.
nice, there was a similar one over australia a while back.
It also reminds me why I try to never fly in or out of London
Is it just me or does anyone else think that it looks like the UK getting hit with a load of american gentleman's relish at the start?!
Innuendo aside, a very interesting film!
At 1:31, what's that going on over England? Lots of military traffic chasing each other round in circles? AWACS? Looks like something takes off from Lincolnshire.
The weird thing is that if you just sit on a sim and have a go, or watch over a controllers shoulder its not that hard
As a rule we don't allow people into the ops room to 'look over our shoulders' during peak traffic periods. Thats when we make our cash. I've seen/instructed people who are great in the sim and absolutely shite when faced with a real radar environment.
Maybe an AWACS paired with 2 fast jets in the area. Good spot.
There's a whole bunch of US bases around Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire so it could easily be an AWACS a doing a holding pattern for some reason. Probably not Aurora...
At 1:31, what's that going on over England? Lots of military traffic chasing each other round in circles? AWACS? Looks like something takes off from Lincolnshire.
It’s an AWACS flight. There is more information about these flights on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_early_warning_and_control if you want to know more about AWACS.
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Aha! Good guess then.
Everyone knows the really secret stuff doesn't show up on radar/video/human eye thats how they keep it secret 🙂
The idea of air traffic control, ie, communicating with an aircraft before it lands, was invented in Croydon.
The world's first air traffic control tower still stands :
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It's just down the road from IKEA and is open free to visitors on the first Sunday of every month.
It's worth a visit if you are interested in the history of aviation.
http://www.croydonairport.org.uk/Visitor-Centre
I believe it is central to the control structures of the political and religious elite.
....full of lizards, I heard.
Airstrip One.
As a rule we don't allow people into the ops room to 'look over our shoulders' during peak traffic periods. Thats when we make our cash. I've seen/instructed people who are great in the sim and absolutely shite when faced with a real radar environment.
We let anyone in the tower if they bring cake.
Seen the same thing many times with trainees who perform well in the sim but fail to rate in the real word.
Very good. ta
Peppa Pig is an air traffic controller
That is very good, thanks. Loved all those early morning flights coming in from the US, having been sat on a few of them eating my imitation food waiting to get back home.
I knew an air traffic controller, retired in his 40's, a very rich man...
I wouldn't like to do it
Back in my redundancy days, I went along to an ATC interview/exam. They run big test days in hotels, conference centres etc where you book on, turn up and they put you through a host of mental exams.
A lot of number/letter/pattern recognition:
They'll show a sequence eg XGH896
then six very similar sequences underneath:
XGH869
XHG896
...
and you have to identify the matching one. Sounds easy but you've got 50 to do in less than a minute.
Then some 3D visual tests, psychometric tests, spatial awareness, visualising folded/unfolded shapes.
A few bits of basic mental arithmentic mostly around angles, geometry etc.
And then a personality test designed to show how much you follow rules, procedure. I could see through what it was doing but I still failed it. 😉
Passed the rest but understandably they don't want someone who might be willing to bend, break or disregard a few rules controlling a load of aircraft...
That visualisation map is fantastic, I love stuff like that. The Strava heatmaps are similar and I've seen a simulation of Boris Bike trips in London using the same kind of software.
That visualisation map is fantastic, I love stuff like that
This was on the BBC site the other day.
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29915801 ]London Data maps[/url]
Very impressive.
Anyone know what the song is? Or how I could find similar songs?
Ta.
Warton, did he win the lottery?
(ATC in the family still working at 53 and defo not rich)
****co band 5. 🙂