Considered one of the professions whose origin is closer in time, integrates and leads the ranking of the most stressful and more responsibility.
Jacob Wachtel, founder and first president of the Association of Air Traffic Controllers of Israel began with the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating an international corps of drivers, writing and receiving positive responses from various European associations.
Thus 19 and 20 October 1961 takes place the meeting of the working group formed in Amsterdam, Netherlands, preparing the founding of the European Federation of Air Traffic Controllers (EFACTA).
However, during the meeting, there were accessions of some twenty national associations, eventually settling for the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers (IFATCA), which today has with over 132 member associations and brings together more than 50,000 air traffic controllers worldwide.
On 20 October was set as the "International Day of Air Traffic Controllers."
Much has been said of the profession in so few years.
similar in terms of methodology, as it conforms to international standards and recommended by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), has profound asymmetries in terms of financial remuneration received by the controller air as the country develops its work.
Thus, in Spain could be said that the drivers are among the highest paid in the world where reached base salary, according to the English government, € 170,000 overtime can reach to 900,000 per year, the average annual overtime some 334,000 euros (according to official news media reflected by different English).
This, plus a stunning lack of AENA, the English government took to intervene forcefully (through a Royal Decree) on wages, overtime and the type of air traffic services provided, by implementing AFIS airports less than 50 daily operations to reduce costs.
This, plus a stunning lack of AENA, the English government took to intervene forcefully (through a Royal Decree) on wages, overtime and the type of air traffic services provided, by implementing AFIS airports less than 50 daily operations to reduce costs.
The decision triggered a conflict with the drivers union members in USCA, which they accuse of favoring AENA savings economic resources on aviation security, and these days, the conflict between a government and air traffic controllers received more worldwide attention.
should go back to the days of the presidency of Ronald Reagan in the U.S. to find a history of a trade union dispute that deep.
should go back to the days of the presidency of Ronald Reagan in the U.S. to find a history of a trade union dispute that deep.
Among the most unfortunate of the story, and reminds us of the seriousness of the responsibility of an air traffic controller, we can find the plane crash on July 1, 2002, when a Tupolev 154 flying over the border between Germany and Switzerland, collided with a Boeing 757 cargo.
died in the accident, among others, 50 Russian children. In total 71 bodies were scattered within a radius of 40 km
A string of errors in the Zurich control center, which the intervener driver was not totally responsible, caused the accident.
The multinational company Skyguide, responsible for the provision of air traffic control service and apologized for taking security measures degraded that day, such as idle stop approach radar alerts over between routes and coordination cell among controls.
The father of a 4 year old, died in the accident personally assisted in the search for bodies and managed to find his own daughter.
The press revealed the name of the controller on duty that fateful day.
Two years later, this man named Vitaly Kaloyev, an achievement to find the address of the controller Peter Nielsen and killed by multiple stab wounds after showing a photograph of her deceased daughter.
Kaloyev was sentenced to 8 years in prison but was released two years after taking home the recognition tacit population as a national hero.
View: The position of the English drivers.
The English government's position.
View: The position of the English drivers.
The English government's position.
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