This airspace included all approach and departure flights to/from LA International, Burbank, Ontario, Long Beach, John Wayne, and San Diego's International Airports plus about 33 general aviation airports and a half dozen more military airports from the San Fernando Valley down to the Mexican border out to the western halves of Arizona and Nevada. The common mission that all FAA personnel shared within only the 2nd “Super” TRACON in the entire country (at that time, after the New York Common IFR) was ensuring safe approaches, departures, overflights and tower handoffs throughout all Southern California Airspace. ![]() The specific responsibilities of the 120 controllers and all the Professional Airway Systems Specialists in the other units in that building, including the 24 I supervised were different of course, but.we had a common mission. Five banks of mainframe Univac computers, a dozen subsystems, and hundreds of other electronics systems also handled data from two long range (300 mile) radar systems that also fed the TRACON. Two more years as LINCS telecommunications manager at the new Southern California Super TRACON followed by five more years as the Manager of the TRACON's National Airspace Systems Electronics Unit. That unit employed 18 GS-12 Professional Airway Systems Specialists and 6 super-tech GS-13 major Systems Performance Specialists (SPSs). The building housed about 120 Air Traffic Controllers looking at the Automated Radar feeds from about 30 short range (60 mile) radar systems installed from north of LA International down to the Mexican border and out to the west side of Arizona and Nevada. Wow! South Carolina had a golden opportunity and ample rationale for having a brand-new combined, state of the art Air Traffic Control Tower AND a Super TRACON constructed near the junction of SC-31 and SC -22 just 25 miles from the Grand Strand as I advocated several times when I lived in Myrtle Beach between 20.įirst what do I know about FAA TRACONS and FAA Air Traffic Control Towers? Well, I was employed by the FAA as a Professional Airways Systems Specialist for 29 years. Four years at Los Angeles TRACON, eight total years at El Toro California's TRACON handling traffic into John Wayne Airport, Long Beach Airport, and El Toro's military traffic for the Marine Corps. Then two years as Training Manager for Hawaii-Pacific Airway Facilities Sector, two more years as Program Support Manager for the same Sector covering the Hawaiian Islands, Guam American Samoa, and the Mariana Islands. ![]() ![]() Some of you may have seen a rather innocuous looking news release that The FAA has commissioned a brand-new TRACON (Terminal Radar Approach Control) and Air Traffic Control Tower at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. Control Tower at Charlotte Douglas International Airport
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