Southern Region
Alvin Kent, Atlanta Center Five minutes. On Nov. 10, 2011, the pilot of a Cessna Skyhawk with a rough running engine was five minutes away from landing safely at an abandoned airport in rural southwestern Alabama. […]
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Northwest Mountain Region 2
Ken Greenwood, Josh Haviland, Ryan Herrick, Seattle TRACON “You know what? You just saved my life.” Some of the most important words an air traffic controller could ever hear were spoken by the pilot of a […]
Northwest Mountain Region
Charlie Rohrer, Denver Center Call it fate that Denver Center air traffic controller Charlie Rohrer took a class on hypoxia, a condition in which a person’s body is deprived of oxygen, the week of May 9, […]
New England Region
Chris Henchey and Ryan Workman, Boston Center On Oct. 9, 2011, air traffic controller Ryan Workman began assisting the pilot of a Cessna 150 on a Visual Flight Rules (VFR) or clear conditions flight plan en […]
Great Lakes Region
Guy Lieser and Steve McGreevy, Chicago Center Chicago Center (ZAU) oversees some of the busiest airspace in the world, thanks to O’Hare International Airport, the country’s second-busiest airport. But Chicago controllers Steve McGreevy and Guy Lieser […]
Eastern Region
Matt Reed, Potomac TRACON As the region that covers the nation’s capital and some major international airports, the Potomac Terminal Radar Approach Control facility (PCT) handles a large number of international flights. Sometimes, the pilots of […]
