ATS Services and Position Flashcards
What are the four types of services ATS personnel provide?
- Information Services
- Advisory Services
- Control Services
- Alerting Services
Who provides information services?
All ATS personnel
Who provides advisory services?
Flight Service Specialists
Who provides control services?
Air traffic controllers; flight service specialists provide to vehicle only
Who provides alerting services?
All ATS personnel
What specific services are provided in information services?
- Flight Information Service Enroute (FISE)
- Pilot Briefing Service (PBS)
What specific services are provided in advisory services?
- Airport Advisory Service (AAS)
- Remote Airport Advisory Service (RAAS)
What specific services are provided in control services?
- Vehicle control service
- Airport control service
- Terminal control service
- Area control service
Who provides Flight Information Service Enroute (FISE)?
Flight Service Specialists working in FICs
Who provides Pilot Briefing Service (PBS)?
Flight Service Specialists working in FICs
Who provides Airport Advisory Service (AAS) and Remote Airport Advisory Service (RAAS)?
Flight Service Specialists
Who provides vehicle control service?
Ground controllers if airport equipped with control towers, if not then Flight Service Specialists at AAS
Who provides airport control service?
Airport controllers working ground control, tower control, clearance delivery, or combination
Who provides terminal control service?
Terminal Controllers at ACC
Who provides area control service?
Enroute Controllers at ACC
Who provides alert services?
ATS units
How many ATS positions are there and what are they?
- 9 positions
- Flight Service Specialist
- Apron Advisory
- Ground Control
- Tower Control
- Clearance Delivery
- Arrival
- Departure
- Surveillance
- Enroute
What are the staff working at a FIC?
Flight Service Specialists (FSS); identified by RADIO
What do FSS working at Flight Information Centre provide?
- Conduct pilot briefings
- Accept and process flight plans
- Communicate in-flight information
- Relay ATC clearances
- Assist aircraft in emergency situations
- Provide alerting services and search for VFR aircraft
- Monitor NAVAIDs
- Issue notices to pilots on airport conditions, NAVAID serviceability, and surface weather reports
- Perform surface weather observations
What do FSS working at Flight Service Station provide?
- Provide AAS and RAAS
- Control vehicles
- Accept and process flight plans
- Relay ATC clearances
- Assist aircraft in emergency situations
- Provide alerting services and search for VFR aircraft
- Monitor NAVAIDs
- Perform surface weather observations
What are the apron advisory service responsibilities?
- Assign gates
- Issue pushback instructions
- Provide advisory information on other aircraft and vehicles operating on the apron
- Identified as APRON
What are the clearance delivery controllers responsibilities?
- Issue IFR clearances for IFR aircraft
- Provide IFR and VFR pilots with pertinent airport information
- Create, amend, and delete FDE strips
- Forward FDE to ground controller
- Answer or initiate phone calls
- Coordinate with various agencies
- Perform various clerical tasks
- Identified as CLEARANCE DELIVERY
What are the ground controllers responsibilities?
- Provide services normally performed by clearance delivery
- Issue airport information to aircraft
- Issue taxi authorization to aircraft
- Issue authorizations for vehicle movements
- Coordinate with tower controllers
- Identified as GROUND
What are the tower controllers responsibilities?
- Issue take-off and landing clearances
- Pass traffic
- Ensure separation between aircraft
- Coordinate with ground controller and ACC controller
- Provide information services
- Provide alerting services
- Identified as TOWER
What are the terminal controllers responsibilities?
- Provide separation between aircrafts
- Issue various clearances and instructions
- Receive arrivals and hand off departures as dictated by procedures
- Pass traffic
- Provide weather information
- Issue updated information as it is received
- Coordinate with other terminal, enroute, and tower controllers
- Provide alerting services
- Identified as TERMINAL, DEPARTURE, ARRIVAL
What are the enroute controllers responsibilities?
- Provide separation between aircrafts
- Issue various clearances and instructions
- Provide arrival information
- Pass traffic
- Provide weather information
- Issue updated information as it is received
- Coordinate with other enroute, terminal, and tower controllers
- Provide alerting services
- Identified as CENTRE
