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I think he meant the airport employees on the tarmac who wear giant ear muffs.
by cxseven 8y ago
I think he meant the airport employees on the tarmac who wear giant ear muffs.
- commandlinefan 8y agoYou're giving me too much credit, I meant the guys in the air traffic control tower - I just thought they wore the same giant ear muffs that the guys down on the tarmac wear.
- NikkiA 8y agoI've got even more bad news... the guys in the tower generally aren't ATC, but ground traffic control. The ATC guys will be in a dark room somewhere, probably a basement.
- commandlinefan 8y agoI can't believe Hollywood has been misleading me all these years...
- jriot 8y agoThat would be wrong. The guys in the tower are ATC, they do ground control (still ATC) and local control, surface to 2500' with a 5-mile radius. The dark room guys (TRACON) do surface to the top of their airspace (depends, 18k, 23k) with a 60-mile radius (roughly). Then there is center/en route, which does air traffic above the TRACON when you are level flying at 30k+. Simplified version. Source: Was an air traffic controller.