Stephen Barringer, John Bradley, Adam Cohen, Mark Franklin, Peter Grebenschikoff, and Randy Trainor, Atlantic City ATCT To an outsider, the service of air traffic control would appear to involve just two people at any one time […]

Mark Goldstein, Wichita ATCT If the name of the award winner atop this page sounds familiar, it should. Mark Goldstein won the inaugural Archie League Medal of Safety Award for the Central Region in 2004. He […]

Bret Brown, Tom Eisenmayer, and Mike Moravec, Anchorage Center When the pilot of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk inadvertently flew into Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) conditions – he was not IFR-qualified – and found himself lost in […]

Michael Darling, Los Angeles ATCT It was, as the Los Angeles Times reported, “the closest call they [controllers] have seen at LAX in seven years.” But standing between the episode of pilot deviation and the impending […]

Borden Byrd, Dallas-Fort Worth TRACON There are seven runways at the nation’s third-busiest airport, Dallas-Fort Worth International. It takes experienced, sharp, and focused controllers – in the control tower at DFW and in the nearby TRACON […]

J.D. Smith, Pensacola TRACON No matter the time, day or night, or whether other people are working in the control tower or not, air traffic controllers must always be alert and prepared for anything. This was […]