Airmen train Seattle air traffic controllers

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Airmen train Seattle air traffic controllers
By Erik Holmes - Staff writer
Posted : Saturday Nov 1, 2008 7:25:27 EDT

Air traffic controllers at McChord Air Force Base, Wash., are training civilian controllers at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to get them ready for the opening of a new runway Nov. 20.

The SeaTac airport’s third runway will make the control tower operations dramatically busier, increasing the number of aircraft crossing live runways from an average of 35 per hour to about 105 per hour.

“It’s quite a change from the environment they’re used to working in now,” said Todd Thomas of the Federal Aviation Administration.

Controllers at SeaTac have been busy creating new procedures to handle the increase, but the airport does not have a simulator on which controllers can practice.

That’s where McChord stepped in, offering its control tower simulator to SeaTac personnel.


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