VIDEO: NATCA President Paul Rinaldi’s Opening Statement at Hearing VIDEO: Highlights of Hearing Featuring NATCA/Rinaldi VIDEO: Unedited Footage from Hearing DOCUMENT: Rinaldi’s Full Written Testimony During the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee’s hearing on the […]

KSNV-TV LAS VEGAS: Directing The Sky – An inside look at the jobs of air traffic controllers at Las Vegas Tower (LAS) and Las Vegas Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON – L30). The story features interviews […]

Written TestimonyPaul RinaldiPresident, National Air Traffic Controllers Association, AFL-CIO (NATCA)May 17, 2017 Before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Hearing: “The Need to Reform FAA and Air Traffic Control to Build a 21st Century Aviation System […]

Kansas City Air Route Traffic Control Center air traffic controllers Jeffrey Volski and Andrew Cullen displayed calm and reassurance under pressure to help the pilot of a small plane who was battling severe icing conditions. The […]

Archie League.

Archie League pioneered the air traffic control profession in 1929. League was employed by the city of St. Louis where every morning, he would pile equipment into a wheelbarrow he had rigged with an umbrella to protect him from the sun. He would trek across the 170-acre dirt airfield, position himself at the approach end of the runway, and wave his flags to issue holding and landing clearances for inbound pilots.

WFTV-TV ORLANDOMay 4, 2017 “At three hundred forty-five feet in the air, the Orlando International Airport’s air traffic control tower rises out of the flat sprawling concrete. On an average day, the tower and its staff […]