The NATCA Difference

“Eight Hotel Romeo is descending, I’ve lost my cabin pressure.” The pilot of a Socata TBM-850 single-turboprop aircraft was flying north toward Burlington, Vt. Boston Center (ZBW) controller Casey Allan was conducting on-the-job training. But what […]

In the late afternoon of June 16, 2020, Matt Wyrick was working in Area 6 of Indianapolis Center (ZID) when the controller-in-charge (CIC), fellow NATCA member Rachel Gilmore, was contacted by another area that they had […]

The Global Air Traffic Controllers Alliance, “The Alliance” for short, recently held a meeting in London. The Alliance is a coalition of labor unions representing aviation safety professionals from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Spain, the United […]

NATCA continues its commitment to STEM (Science, Technology, Education, Math) education and sparking students’ interest in the ATC profession when it provided an ATC simulator lab at two Philadelphia-area schools: the STEM Academy at Showalter and […]

Registration for Communicating For Safety (CFS) 2022 opens April 19. Hosted annually by NATCA, CFS is the aviation industry’s leading conference about safety, technology, and building relationships. This three-day conference is the only one of its […]

NATCA is excited to welcome Cincinnati Municipal Airport – Lunken Field Federal Contract Tower (LUK) to the NATCA family. The city-owned airport is located three miles east of downtown Cincinnati and serves both private aircraft and […]