Scholarship

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Manage traffic as flight planned, entering assigned airspace.
• Monitor and direct aircraft movements on the ground and in the air, using surveillance systems (radar), computers, or visual references.
• Control all ground traffic at airports, including baggage vehicles and airport workers.
• Manage communications by transferring control of departing flights to the traffic control centre and accepting control of arriving flights.
• Provide information to pilots, such as weather updates, runway closures, and other critical information.
• Issue landing and take-off instructions to pilots.
• Direct ground traffic, including taxiing aircraft, maintenance, and baggage vehicles, and airport workers.
• Monitor and direct aircraft movements within an assigned air space and on the ground at airports to minimise delays and maximise safety.
• Maintain radio and telephone contact with adjacent control towers, terminal control units, and other area control centres in order to coordinate aircraft movements.
• Alert airport emergency services in case of emergencies and when aircrafts are experiencing difficulties.
• Initiate and coordinate searches for missing aircrafts.
• Complete daily activity reports and keep records of messages from aircrafts.