How do they match: Air Traffic Controllers

  • Flight Communications Officer
  • Flight Control Specialist
  • Flight Dispatcher
  • Flight Radio Officer
  • Flight Radio Operator
  • Flight Service Specialist
  • Flight Tower Dispatcher

  • Control air traffic on and within vicinity of airport, and movement of air traffic between altitude sectors and control centers, according to established procedures and policies. Authorize, regulate, and control commercial airline flights according to government or company regulations to expedite and ensure flight safety.

  • Compile information about flights from flight plans, pilot reports, radar, or observations.
  • Conduct pre-flight briefings on weather conditions, suggested routes, altitudes, indications of turbulence, or other flight safety information.
  • Determine the timing or procedures for flight vector changes.
  • Organize flight plans or traffic management plans to prepare for planes about to enter assigned airspace.
  • Provide flight path changes or directions to emergency landing fields for pilots traveling in bad weather or in emergency situations.
  • Transfer control of departing flights to traffic control centers and accept control of arriving flights.

  • Coordinate flight control or management activities.
  • Plan flight operations.