Air Traffic Control

Air Traffic Control Articles that have been published in the UKFSC Official Publication “FOCUS on Commercial Aviation Safety”.

Title Author Issue No Page No
Maastricht Report – ATC ’91 Anne Paylor 2 6
Countdown to Global ATC Anne Paylor 2 10
Pan-European ATC Keith Mack 2 14
Human Factors for Air Traffic Control V. David Hopkin 2 20
Airmiss Reporting Gp. Capt. John Maitland 2 27
APHAZ Reporting Peter Gray 2 29
VHF and Satellite Datalink Graham Lake 2 31
The new ICAO Airspace Classifications AIC 86/1991 5 8
Contributing to Safety in ATC Brian Scotford 5 13
Language Problems in Aviation Lucy F. Leveson 5 15
A Future Air Navigation System Graham Lake 6 7
Human Factors in ATC Training Graeme Stagg 6 11
Callsign Confusion Bob Trott 6 13
Altitude Busts Capt. Tim Sindall 6 16
Pan European ATC Update Keith Mack 7 19
The Future Air Navigation System (FANS) George Paulson 8 3
The New En-Route Centre – The Largest ATC Project in Europe Allan Bradshaw 12 3
ATC Reporting Action is Being Taken! What Next? Barry Dale 12 6
Human Factors in ATC Paul Thomas 13 8
Surface Movement Radar B. F. Linskill 14 3
Say Again? Flight Safety Bulletin 14 11
The Central Control Function Alan Brenchley 14 13
One Zero Ways to Bust an altitude… or was that Eleven Ways? Don George 15 8
Eurocontrol and MATSE/4: Progress and Projections Yves Lambert 16 14
Runway Incursions and Incidents Remain Safety Issues FSC Airport Operations 18 16
How to Use Colour on ATC Radar Displays Linda Reynolds 18 19
Autonomous Precision Approach and Landings (APALS) Otto Deiffenbach 19 13
The ATC Training Working Group Capt. Mike Holtom 20 21
Focus on Communication Capt. Mike Wood 21 20
RTF Phraseology – Changes Capt. Nigel Ward 22 3
Level Busts Stave James 23 7
Pilot – Controller Communications – A Human Factors Perspective Dr. Sue Baker 23 10
Eurocontrol Introduces New Airspace Management T. F. Suffolk 25 27
European Air Traffic Management at the Dawn of the 21st Century Yves Lambert 27 5
Flying High with Open Systems Tim Maud 27 17
Why all the Fuss about level Busts? Graeme Stagg 33 16
(Almost) Everything you Wanted to Know about RAS and RIS but were afraid to ask – A Pilot’s Guide Wg. Cdr. Mike Strong – DAP 41 20
DPs: What Are They? Reprinted from US Air Force, Flying Safety Magazine July 2000 43 25
Levelling Off Bruce Hales-Dutton 57 14
(Almost) Everything you wanted to know about RAS and RIS but were afraid to ask – A Pilot’s Guide Reprinted from FOCUS Issue 41 with revisions 59 6
Runway Safety Information Bulleton Spring 2005 59 14
What is a level bust? Richard Schofield 59 18
Runway Safety – NATS Activities NATS 59 20
Send Three & Fourpence Paul Jones 60 5
Stop Immediately – ATC Cancellation of Take-Off Clearance UKFSC Task Group and CAA SRG 60 8
Working together to cut airspace infringements Steve McKie 61 15
Watch Out! Life in Class G Tim Williamson 62 4
Callsign Confusion – Suggested strategies to reduce the rate of occurrence and the resultatn safety risk Mike Edwards 62 20
The ICAO English Language Competency Requirements Bob Trott 63 6
Working together to tackle level busts Richard Schofield 63 14
Communication Error, an industry campaign to improve standards Karen Skinner 63 17
Airport safety when it comes to the crunch, it’s a team game! Sue Scott, NATS 64 5
NATS Pilot RTF standards NATS 64 9
Flight outside controlled airspace – a guide BALPA ATS Study Group 64 12
NATS Mode S in the London Terminal Control Centre Bill Casey 64 16
Reducing the chance of a mid-air collision in the North Atlantic Steve Kirby 64 21
Getting the message David Harvey 65 16
Conditional ILS clearance phraseology with in the London Terminal Manoevering area Stuart Lindsey 66 7
London TMA speed restriction trial Capt Jim Snee
Capt. Ian Mattimoe
66 13
Safety in numbers Paul Spooner 67 16
Developing aeronautical charts for the future Russell Thorp 68 4
Are you getting the message Karen Skinner 68 6
TAG Farnborough Airport Paul Jones 69 4
Have you got the message? 69 13
Improving air traffice management safety Sean Jones 69 22
Adherence to ATC clearances Glynne Dawson 69 24
Level Busts – Learning the hard way Pete Riley 70 8
Airspace Safety Initiative (ASI) Cmdr Paul Brundle 71 4
Effective Communication in Aviation Environment: Work to do Anne Isaac 72 9
The Introduction of TCAS/ACAS II into European Legislation Capt. Tim Sindall 72 17
Communication Error Ross James MacDonald 73 6
Wind Reports – Not the Full Story Robert Seaman 73 23
Battling Level Busts Peter Riley 74 10
Avoiding the Conflict Anne Isaac & Vicky Brooks 74 21
Wake Turbulence – Progress at Last David Booth 74 23
MCRM – Background 76 11
Separation Anxiety Wayne Rosenkrans 77 11
Eurocontrol Voluntary ATM Incident Reporting (EVAIR) Dragica Stankovic 79 22
MCRM Discoveries Anne Isaacs 81 13
Making Airports Safer – Runway Incursions Eurocontrol 82 3
Runway Incursions Capt. Graham Croft 82 5
TCAS II for Helicopters BALPA Flight Safety Department 82 11
Atlantic Crossing Dirk Bohme 82 15
Mode S Interrogation Pattern – Operators Fact Sheet Philip Worgan, NATS 83 9
Preventing Unstable Approach Julian Ogilvie 84 16
Know your Limits – Airborne Holding Simon Grace & Graham Hill 84 23