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1955
1955 - 0414.PDF
414 FLIGHT,1 April 1955 General view of the new S.A.T.C.C. at London Airport, looking past the height - finder scanner towards the main opera- tions-room block and a long-range scanner. SOUTHERN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AS briefly reported last week, the new Southern Air Traffic/^ Control Centre at London Airport is about to begin •*• •*- operation. The photographs and diagram on this pageprovide further information on the unit, which comprises a self- contained air traffic control centre including its own radarinstallation. This is the largest and busiest of this country's three mainA.T.C. centres, the other two being located at Prestwick (Scottish Area) and Preston (Northern England, North Wales and NorthernIreland). In order to handle the large number of aircraft, the airways and advisory routes controlled by the southern centreare divided into the following sectors: Sector 1: Traffic east of London on airways Green One andRed One (to and from Brussels, Amsterdam, Scandinavia); and traffic south-east of London on airway Amber Two (from Parisand Rome). Sectors 2 and 3: Inbound traffic in the vicinity of the London Control Zone (either bound for aerodromes in the zone or over-flying the zone to, say, Manchester). Sector 4: Outbound traffic from aerodromes in the LondonCentral Zone. Sector 5: Traffic on airways Amber One south of London (toParis and Rome) and Red One west of London (to Channel Islands, Spain, Portugal, Western France). Sector 6: Traffic on airways Green One west of London(transatlantic services via Shannon), Amber One and Amber Two north of London (to Dublin, Belfast, Prestwick, Manchester andBirmingham). Each sector has its own "executive" (or "D" controller) andhis assistant (or "A" controller), both of whose radio-telephone equipment for communication with aircraft is capable of coveringthe whole of the routes, by means of remote transmitting and receiving stations. As illustrated in the diagram, the "procedural" controllers FLIGHT PROGRESS BOARDS . Main advantage of the new Southern Air Traffic Control Centre over its predecessor at Uxbridge is that procedural con- trollers and radar con- trollers work together in the same operations room, the layout of which is shown here. 1 = L = S = L.C. - H.C. = H = •*• Information display Long-range radar Short-range radar Low cover High cover Height-finder Teleprinter
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