How Air Traffic Control Works

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Chapters:
0:00 What 90% of Air Traffic Controller’s Job Looks Like
01:35 Why Large Amounts of Green Space Make Airports Dangerous
02:18 What Control Tower Controllers Exactly Do
05:48 Why the Toronto Airport Needs an Eagle
07:27 What do Area Controllers Exactly Do
10:23 How to Stay Connected Almost Anywhere in the World
11:35 How Overflight Traffic is Managed
12:33 Who and Why Decides Runway Configurations at the Airport
13:47 Why Airport Launches Hawks from a Moving Car
15:26 Why Heavy Airliners like A380 Usually Land on the Departing Runway
17:42 How is the Air Traffic Managed Globally?
20:33 Why Toronto Airport Employs the Fastest Bird on the Planet
21:53 Toronto Airport's Full Size 360 Degree Control Tower Simulator
22:59 The Emergency Red Phone from the 1980’s & Augmented Reality
24:11 How Air Traffic Controllers Communicate the Same Way around the World
25:45 Why Short Haul Flights are more Likely to be Delayed than Long Haul Flights
27:49 Why Sunny Days Frequently Demand More Air Traffic Controllers
28:11 How Satellites Revolutionized Air Traffic Control during the Past Decade
30:09 What’s it Takes to be an Air Traffic Controller
31:48 Why the Number of Flights Never Recovered after the COVID Pandemic
32:16 The Best Kept Secret at the Toronto Airport Control Tower

Music:
1AM OMW - Ballpoint
5 Finger Discount - Mo Stacks
Observations - From Now On
Fraudulent Business - Marten Moses
Daily Coverage - Marten Moses
Daily Coverage - Marten Moses
Alpha Code - Tellsonic
Blacklight - John B. Lund
Grenadine - West & Zander
Happy Tree - Joseph Alesci
Hope Won't Fail Me - Blackout Memories
Floods - Frank Jonsson
Fatal Attraction (Instrumental Version) - Vicki Vox
Where the Air Is Thin - Jay Varton
Danger Sun - Max Anson
Concealed Room - Marten Moses
Concealed Room - Marten Moses
Amalthea - Van Sandano
Shangri-La - Basixx
Miles - Enzofar
Daily Passenger - Ethan Sloan
Silver Flicker - Colors of Illusion
Nobis Ipsis - Craft Case
Silver Flicker - Colors of Illusion
Montage of a Map - Eden Avery
Fun While It Lasted - Emil Axelsson
Thriller - Ethan Sloan
Keep an Eye - Frank Jonsson

We visited the Toronto airport control tower, the Toronto Area Control Center, and the wildlife
management team that keep birds from flying into airplanes. Buckle up, because this is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT


Footage:
Select images/videos from Getty Images
Shutterstock
NAV Canada
FlightRadar24
Mateusz Czwakiel (Creative Commons License)
Dave “daviation” Isenor (Creative Commons License)