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Jesse Fisher, Miami ATCT The scenario had all the makings of a disaster. It was dark. Traffic volume was heavy and complex. The local control positions inside Miami Tower were combined. The radio frequency was congested. […]

Randy Neu, Pueblo (Colo.) ATCT On the morning of Memorial Day last year, a calm, confident, soothing voice, belonging to Pueblo Tower Controller Randy Neu, was the difference between life and death. Because of poor weather, […]

James Sawyer and Kevin Winn, Boston ATCT The intricacies of Boston’s Logan Airport are well known to both pilots and controllers and others who operate various equipment around the tarmac. It’s a small layout, with many […]

Kevin Rojek, Chicago Midway ATCT Chicago Municipal Airport, or “Munie,” as early pilots knew it, earned the title of “World’s Busiest,” after serving more than 100,000 passengers in 1932, just five years after it opened. In […]

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 […]