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The Houston ARTCC is one of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers in the United States. Houston Center is the 8th busiest ARTCC in the United States. In 2024, Houston Center handled 2,338,712 aircraft. [2] The center controls airspace in southern Texas, Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southwestern Alabama, and areas in the Gulf of Mexico. [3]
The United States has 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC). [1] They are operated by and are part of the Federal Aviation Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation . An ARTCC controls aircraft flying in a specified region of airspace, known as a flight information region (FIR), typically during the en route portion of flight.
In air traffic control, an area control center (ACC), also known as a center or en-route center, is a facility responsible for controlling aircraft flying in the airspace of a given flight information region (FIR) at high altitudes between airport approaches and departures.
An American Airlines Airbus A319 airplane takes off past the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., in 2023.
To be considered as an air traffic controller, candidates must be U.S. citizens under the age of 31, clear both a medical exam and security investigation, pass the FAA air traffic pre-employment ...
The need for a boost in air traffic controllers is part of a nationwide push to build up the country's infrastructure capabilities after the passage of President Joe Biden's 2021 $1 trillion ...
Area control centers (ACCs) control IFR air traffic in their flight information region (FIR). The current list of FIRs and ACCs is maintained by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The following is the alphabetic list of all ACCs and their FIRs as of October 2011 [update] :
At the completion of academic training, the graduating student will be granted an Air Traffic Control license, which will include one or more Ratings. [52] These are sub-qualifications denoting the air traffic control discipline or disciplines in which the person has been trained. The ICAO defines five such ratings: [52] Area (procedural) Area ...