It's clear skies at O'Hare International Airport, but there's a thunderstorm elsewhere in the Midwest. As passengers blithely board their plane, air traffic control is on the radio with pilot Chuck ...

The global air transportation industry is in the process of slowly transitioning to Controller to Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) to help alleviate the increasingly congested voice ...

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As part of the Federal Aviation Administration's NextGen air traffic control modernization, the agency has implemented Data Communications at Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports. Data Comm will help ...

As authorities continue to search for the Malaysia Airlines jet that went missing on March 8, thoughts turn to air safety. It’s exceptionally rare for planes to experience malfunctions, especially ...

As important as pilot and pilot-controller communication is to the safety of flight operations, it's difficult to find any definitive single source of guidance for the exact lexicon and phraseology to ...

It should be a fairly simple relationship. Pilots fly airplanes. Controllers watch the airplanes, either visually or using radar, and provide instructions that help those pilots reach their ...

"Accident Investigation Committee meets with Controller to investigate...Analysis in progress" "Incident-Controller communication, one of several evidence" Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and ...