Airport

1a) Air Traffic Control radar surveillance system Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. The purpose of ATC systems worldwide is to separate aircraft to prevent collisions, to organize and expedite the flow of traffic, and to provide information and other support for pilots when able. b) The operating principles of ATC radar survelliance system Primary Radar Principle: The primary radar unit has a major…

Early in the morning, the couples walked through the airplane hallway going to their seats and suddenly the wife stopped. She started looking around and was amazed by the interior design of the plane. After passing by the First-class seats and continue through the Business class, she was arguing with her husband about who will be sitting on the window seat. At the end she sat on it. After that, she grabbed a novel that she bought before she entered the plane and started reading it. Her husband…

Have you ever gone on a vacation and had to travel across the country? That 4-5 hour plane ride seems to last an eternity. Ugh, 5 hours without wifi?! Fyodor Konyukhov laughs at your despair, for he just completed a journey far greater. Sandman Mike Aboard the anything but luxurious Turgoyak, Fyodor departed on his adventure from the Chilean port of Concon on December 22,2013, heading for Australia’s Brisbane. 160 days later he had covered a distance of 9,300 nautical miles to his destination…

Ever since I was just a youngster I have always had a fascination with airplanes. When I took my first trip on an airplane I was really uneasy about it. Then they brought me into the cockpit and let me see all the instruments and we talked about how planes worked. My fears all turned into fascinations and I realized how relaxing being in the air really was. After that I was almost sure that I wanted to get involved with planes. I found out about a program that could help me become more involved…

One of my duties was to review and update the DHS air surveillance requirements. The document in question was from 2012 and was general in nature. To accomplish and to understand the complexities of the task, I needed to familiarize myself with how the original DHS air surveillance requirements were generated and were each line item originated. I discussed the origination of the current requirements with the Director of Air and Marine Operations (AMO) Domain Awareness (DA) and members from…

The Houston runway was quickly disappearing beneath me, the plane ascending, leaving my stomach dismantled on the tarmac. I couldn’t believe what was happening. I was truly on a plane, by myself, headed to Buenos Aires, Argentina. My mother laughed at the thought of me living abroad; consistently making it known my ideas were childish, financially unstable and unattainable. With a slight grin pulling at my lips, I close my eyes and begin to wonder what the world will look like on the other side…

Attention Getters- setting-onomatopoeia- question My first time Jet Skiing in Mexico Have you ever gone jet skiing and felt so nervous that you had butterflies in your stomach? I have. In Los Cabos, Mexico, the water was clear blue like the sky. It was on November 20, 2017 when I was 13 years old ,and me and my sisters went jet skiing for the first time. WHOOSH! I was so nervous and scared to go on a jet ski. I woke up the morning and I put off my jet ski suit and walk out of the hotel…

Stepping off the Avensa flight onto the bright and cool gray terminal, Maria Venegas, accompanied by her husband and one-year old baby, drops her bags to the floor and shouts, “Hello Miami, we are here and we are going to stay!” This was the scene on a warm May day in 1996 as my parents and I arrived to the United States with three months’ worth of money and an incomparable determination to build a new life. I do not remember the moment, nor was I even remotely aware of what was going on in my…

The Houston runway was quickly disappearing beneath me, the plane ascending, leaving my stomach dismantled on the tarmac. I couldn’t believe what was happening. I was truly on a plane, by myself, headed to Buenos Aires, Argentina. My mother laughed at the thought of me living abroad; consistently making it known my ideas were childish, financially unstable, and unattainable. With a slight grin pulling at my lips, I close my eyes and begin to wonder what the world will look like on the other side…

As we accessed the airplane, we got greeted by radiant stewardesses. Since Lillian ordered first-class tickets, our elegant seating place was at the front of the airplane. The airplane eventually got filled by people from various cultures, so we started to buckle our seats as assigned by the radio and off we flew to Cairo, Egypt. It was early in the morning, which then I decided to take a tranquil nap. In a few minutes, I rose from the alarms of “delightful” stewardesses and the cries of babies.…