{"id":296,"date":"2016-04-07T04:31:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T04:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waddleslux.dyndns.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=296"},"modified":"2016-11-16T09:59:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T09:59:04","slug":"approach-control","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/atc.lu\/approach-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Approach Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atc.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/jobapp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-376 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/atc.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/jobapp1.jpg\" alt=\"jobapp1\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a> \u00a0<b><i>Approach control<\/i><\/b> is located in the Bloc Technique Operationel (BTO) but has no outside view on the runway. The approach controller operates mostly in a class C\/D airspace called Terminal Control Area (TMA) which extends from an altitude of 2500 feet to an upper limit of flight level 145\/165. Even though the TMA boundary is a bit larger than Luxembourg territory itself it is still pretty small by international standards.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The aim of the approach controller is to efficiently vector arriving aircraft to establish safely on the Instrument <a href=\"https:\/\/atc.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/jobapp2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-377 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/atc.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/jobapp2.jpg\" alt=\"jobapp2\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a>Landing System (ILS) by giving heading and flight level\/altitude restrictions. All arriving and departing IFR aircraft must be radar separated by 5 nautical miles horizontal or 1000 feet vertical from\u00a0each other. Except for traffic reasons, all departing flights adhere to a Standard Instrument Departure route (SID) that will lead them to their requested airway.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/atc.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/jobapp3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-378 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/atc.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/jobapp3.jpg\" alt=\"jobapp3\" width=\"150\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a>Secondary radar (mode S) is used to obtain callsign, level and speed readouts on the radar display but in class D airspace, separation is applied only between IFR traffic (Instrument Flight Rules), but not between VFR (Visual Flight Rules) traffic and IFR traffic. Only traffic information is given when applicable.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Approach control is located in the Bloc Technique Operationel (BTO) but has no outside view on the runway. The approach controller operates mostly in a class C\/D airspace called Terminal Control Area (TMA) which extends from an altitude of 2500 feet to an upper limit of flight level 145\/165. Even though the TMA boundary is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atc.lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atc.lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atc.lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atc.lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atc.lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atc.lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atc.lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}