3/27/2023 0 Comments Seatac air navigation![]() ![]() He created Aviation Day – an event giving students a behind-the-scenes look at careers in aviation. Ten years ago, Rogers decided to do something about it. “And although aviation was a cool, leading edge career in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, now there are a lot of competing high-tech opportunities that scoop kids away.” “Aviation careers are so specialized that a lot of people don’t even know they are out there,” said Rogers. And, as the industry faced a looming shortage of aviation professionals, he realized those similarities were part of the problem. Having spent decades flying in the Air Force and then for Alaska Airlines, he found the stories of the pilots he shared the flight deck with to be awfully similar. ![]() Rogers’ father was a private pilot – he grew up around a tight-knit culture of aviators where some of his first jobs were around the airport, washing windows and gassing private planes. Since starting his career in the 1970s, he’s flown more than 100 types of aircraft on four continents (including the F-15), racking up more than 21,000 hours as a pilot.īut as remarkable as his career has been, his path into aviation was pretty typical. Current StatusĪctive FAA ARTCC facility in Auburn, King County, Washington.Captain Tom Rogers has had a remarkable career in aviation. Adjacent ARTCC sector sites are not shown and short-range terminal radar sites are not shown. Note: This list includes only long-range FAA Radar Sites listed with this ARTCC as the Overlying Enroute Center. Seattle ARTCC Radar Sites (edit list) FAA Seattle ARTCC (ZSE) Total Operations (aircraft handled) The Seattle Center also works with Vancouver and Edmonton Control Centers to the north, Salt Lake City center to the east, and Oakland Center to the south and west. There are nine approach controls in Seattle Center’s airspace. The center boundaries extend from the Canadian border to Northern California and from western Montana to 150 miles off the Pacific Coast. The Seattle ARTCC airspace encompasses some 261,000 square miles including all of Washington, most of Oregon, and portions of Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and California. This number does not include military air traffic controllers. The gathering of radar, beacon and other sensor data are now largely automated and continuous, but the actions necessary to control the airspace are conversational and require some 14,000 FAA air traffic controllers talking directly to pilots in the air and on the ground at terminals. ![]() Voice communication between aircraft and the ARTCCs is supported by a network of ground-air radio sites often co-located with the radar sites. As aircraft enter or exit from one control area to the next, responsibility for the aircraft is transferred to the gaining ARTCC. These centers provide en route and oceanic services to private, commercial, and military aircraft overflying their respective control areas. The system operates with radar data provided by FAA radar sites, DoD radar sites, and other federal agency radar sites. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) system of 24 FAA Area Control Centers, 20 in the lower 48 United States, one in Alaska, one in Hawaii, one in Puerto Rica and one in Guam. In 1962 the ARTCC moved from SeaTac to its current location in Auburn, Washington. In 1950, Seattle ARTCC moved to the Seattle Tacoma Airport (SeaTac) Administration Building, where the first radio was commissioned in the facility allowing direct controller to pilot. The original Seattle ARTCC was located at the Boeing Field Administration Building in 1940 and control instructions were relayed to pilots via company phone lines. The Seattle ARTCC is located at 3101 Auburn Way South, Auburn Washington. Seattle ARTCC Complex in Auburn, Washington. ![]()
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