VATSIM.net - Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network providing simulated air traffic control and online aviation flying. Quot;How Air Traffic Control Works" During peak air travel times in the United States, there are about 5,000 airplanes in the sky every hour. This translates to approximately 50,000 aircraft operating in our skies each day. How do these aircraft keep from colliding with each other? How does air traffic move into and out of an airport or across the country? The task of ensuring safe operations of commercial and private aircraft falls on air traffic controllers. They must coordinate the movements of thousands of aircraft, keep them at safe distances from each other, direct them during takeoff and landing from airports, direct them around bad weather and ensure that traffic flows smoothly with minimal delays.
When you think about air traffic control, the image of men and women in the tower of an airport probably comes to mind. However, the air traffic control system is much more complex than that. Airspace and Air Traffic Control Some pilots of small aircraft fly by vision only (visual flight rules, or VFR). Welcome to VATSIM's Indianapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center. Virtual Air Traffic Simulation of The United States of America :: Got VATUSA? VATSIM.net - Virtual Air Traffic Flight Simulation Network.
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