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The Aurora Air Traffic Management System is used to manage over 21% of the world's airspace. Aurora supports oceanic, en route, approach, and tower control. It also features advanced flight and surveillance data processing, advanced conflict prediction, clearance processing and coordination capabilities, as well as electronic flight strips.
Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZAU) (radio communications: "Chicago Center") is one of 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCCs) operated by the United States Federal Aviation Administration. [1] It is located at 619 W. New Indian Trail Rd., Aurora, Illinois. [2]
A World Aeronautical Chart (WAC) was a type of aeronautical chart used for navigation by pilots of moderate speed aircraft and aircraft at high altitudes in the United States. They are at a scale of 1:1,000,000 (about 1 inch = 13.7 nautical miles or 16 statute miles).
An aeronautical chart is a map designed to assist in the navigation of aircraft, much as nautical charts do for watercraft, or a roadmap does for drivers. Using these charts and other tools, pilots are able to determine their position, safe altitude, best route to a destination, navigation aids along the way, alternative landing areas in case of an in-flight emergency, and other useful ...
The US air traffic control system has been stretched nearly to its breaking point by a decades-long staffing shortage. It’s causing problems not just for the air traffic controllers that remain ...
In 2009, as Aurora developed small vertical take-off UAVs known as the Aurora Goldeneye, the third variant of this family, the GoldenEye-80, was first flown publicly at Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International's Unmanned Systems North America trade show. On 5 October 2017, Boeing announced that it would acquire Aurora Flight Sciences.
The National Air Traffic Services outage prompted the worst single day’s disruption to UK flying since the Icelandic volcano in 2010 UK air traffic control chaos ‘to last for days’ after ...
Audio from air traffic control during a crash between an American Airlines passenger plane and a military helicopter in Washington DC on Wednesday, 28 January has been released. The regional jet ...