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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.


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The planes' on-board traffic collision avoidance systems helped the pilots avoid a midair crash, according to the NATCA's Garth Koleszar, who contended that the incident was a result of a staffing shortage at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center in Palmdale.
The agency said the new design will integrate the New York Terminal Radar Approach Control airspace with portions of surrounding Air Route Traffic Control Center airspace, combine high- and low-altitude airspace to create more efficient arrivals and departures, and expand the use of more efficient separation standards.
Older computer storage devices that are critical to radar and flight management functions were replaced by Lockheed Martin in a rapid deployment of faster, more reliable technology at air route traffic control centers (ARTCC) across the country.
 
 
 
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