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Air traffic control towers are elevated structures for the visual observation and control of the air and ground traffic at an airport. [1] The placement and height of an ATC tower are determined by addressing the many FAA requirements and site-specific considerations to ensure safety within the National Airspace System (NAS).
The iconic KLIA Control Tower. There are two air traffic control towers at Kuala Lumpur International Airport: the main control tower and the apron control tower. Tower West is 133.8 metres tall and is the tallest air traffic control tower in the world, followed by Suvarnabhumi Airport's control tower and KLIA's Terminal East. [2]
Aerodrome or Tower controllers control aircraft within the immediate vicinity of the airport and use visual observation from the airport tower. The tower's airspace is often a 5-nautical-mile (9.3 km) radius around the airport, but can vary greatly in size and shape depending on traffic configuration and volume.
This facility includes the Honolulu International Airport control tower and the Honolulu Center Radar Approach Control (CERAP), itself a combined TRACON-area control center unit covering the Pacific Ocean surrounding the Hawaiian Islands. [1] More than 200 FAA staff work in the control facility. The FAA dedicated the facility in January 2002. [1]
Radio Control Tower is an 8,670 ft (2,640 m) elevation nunatak located in the Southeast Fork Kahiltna Glacier valley in the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park and Preserve, in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is situated west of the Kahiltna base camp for mountaineers attempting to climb Denali or Mount Hunter.
Boston Center is the 14th busiest air traffic control center in the United States. In 2010, Boston Center was responsible for handling 1,721,000 flights. [ 1 ] The Boston ARTCC currently covers 165,000 square miles (430,000 km 2 ) of airspace that includes airports in Connecticut , Vermont , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Maine , New Hampshire ...
The control tower was built on the east side of the airport by the FAA, and went into operation on October 29, 1975. [citation needed] The original control tower is not operational, but is still part of the original wooden Atlantic Aviation hangar on Industrial Avenue. It is in the northeast corner of the hangar.
The location of each airport and presence of control towers is indicated with a circle, or with an outline of the hard-surfaced runways (if over 8,069 feet long). Blue shows an airport with a control tower and magenta for others. Military airstrips (without hard-surface runways) are shown with two concentric circles.