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air route traffic control center |
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The principal facility exercising en route control of aircraft operating under instrument flight rules within its area of jurisdiction. Approximately 26 such centers cover the United States and its possessions. Each has a communication capability to adjacent centers. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Disrupting hundreds of flights and delaying thousands of travelers
across North America, the outage that shut down radar and communications
systems at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center in Palmdale
occurred while the center was operating on backup generators that
started automatically after a vehicle knocked down a utility pole four
miles away. Telos will implement its AMHS solution to be fully
operational across FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers, FAA Combined
Center/Radar Approach Control Centers, FAA Regional Offices and select
FAA Emergency Operations Facilities that require secure messaging
capabilities. More than 15,000 FAA air traffic
controllers currently staff 315 facilities across the country that range
from small towers to large air route traffic control centers. |
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