Flight manager

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Flight controllers in Austria Airfield operations managers are the representatives of the airport operator at uncontrolled airfields . They ensure the orderly operation of the site in accordance with the requirements of the licensing authority. In Germany and Austria, the presence of a flight controller is usually stipulated in the respective operating license; flight operations without a flight controller can be approved in individual cases and subject to conditions.

There are basically no flight controllers in Switzerland. Only at Samedan airfield do the Flight Information Safety Officers (FISO) there perform part of the duties of an air traffic control officer, as is known in Germany. In the rest of the world, legally required supervisory personnel at uncontrolled airfields is largely unknown.

Duties and powers

As the representative of the airport operator, the flight director has to ensure that the airport is in a safe condition and that it is operating properly. In doing so, he assumes the rights and obligations of the airport operator. The flight controller is not authorized to issue orders in accordance with Section 23 (1) No. 2 LuftVO , he has no regulatory or sovereign powers, but is limited to house rules. The pilot in command is fundamentally responsible for the safe conduct of the flight, including the operation of the aircraft on the airfield. Instructions from the flight director must, however, be followed by the pilot in accordance with Section 23 (1) No. 2 LuftVO . Instructions can concern:

  • To operate the airfield safely and properly, e.g. B. the assignment of a parking position.
  • To ensure the applicable regulations of airport operations and air traffic in the area.
  • Instructions in the context of house rules, e.g. B. Establishing the runway.
  • Permitting deviations from regular operations if absolutely necessary, if a risk to air traffic is avoided. ( § 23 Abs. 2 LuftVO )

In addition, the flight controller has a purely advisory and supportive role to ensure safe and smooth flight operations:

Since the flight controller is not a member of air traffic control , there is no authorization to carry out traffic-directing measures against aircraft in the air, e.g. B. to set a landing sequence. He has a purely advisory function, this applies to both the flight in the traffic area and the take-off and landing process on the airfield. He can only give instructions here to avert a specific risk to air traffic.

More tasks

Often the airfield operator assigns further tasks to the flight controller;

education

There is no fixed training for flight controllers who work at a landing site in airspace G. In most cases, at least a private pilot's license or comparable knowledge of aviation law is required. Flight controllers often work on a voluntary basis on small landing areas . Depending on the type of landing site, you need an aircraft radio certificate for VFR (airspace G) or IFR traffic (airspace G with RMZ). In addition, the flight controller must be instructed in his work.

An "Aerodrome Flight Information Service Officer" works at uncontrolled airfields with IFR traffic, who ensures coordination with the respective sector controller.

Representative of air traffic control (BfL or BfLa)

At airfields, the flight director is often also the officer for air supervision and thus the representative of the state aviation authority at the field. As a representative of the State Aviation Authority, in contrast to the flight controller, you exercise a sovereign activity. Private law applies to the flight controller (representative of the placeholder), public law applies to the BfL (representative of the state aviation authority).

equal rights

In 1962, the first flight director was appointed Germany, Renate Kolde took on the airfield of the North Sea island of Juist their service. She eventually became known as the “voice of the north” and, with 34 years of service, was also Germany's longest-serving flight controller.

Flying without a flight director

In contrast to many other countries, flight controllers are still required at most landing sites in Germany . But here, too, there are efforts to approve the operation of a landing site without a flight controller in general or under certain conditions . To make things easier, electronic systems are being tested that automatically announce weather conditions , landing direction, etc. In addition, PCL systems are installed to activate the runway lighting .

history

Until the end of the Weimar Republic , the operation of airports was largely the responsibility of the operator . At larger airports there was a police air station, responsible for compliance with laws and regulations. The uniformed law enforcement officers were responsible for the air police surveillance service on the airport premises. The training, structure and subordination of the air police were regulated differently in the federal states . In the Free State of Prussia , it was a separate training course within the protection police , which was expanded to include aviation-specific subjects. It was subordinate to the district president as an intermediate authority for aviation affairs . Smaller airfields were assigned to the air police of the larger airports without staff being permanently on site. The task of the air police included:

After the seizure of the Nazis the civil air traffic management has been on the design of the Ministry of Aviation rearranged. Air agencies subordinate to the ministry were created and, in addition to the aviation weather service and radio communications service , they were assigned air policing tasks as aerial supervision . The air traffic control was divided into airport management for airfields and air traffic control watch at smaller land areas. The air traffic control personnel were appointed by the air authorities and were mostly taken over by the air police. From 1935 the uniform of the Luftwaffe was worn. With the ordinance of 1936, aircraft now required a single permit from the air traffic control station before leaving even the smallest airfield, which had to be applied for in writing beforehand. A flight plan could replace the application at large airports . The presence of the air traffic control during flight operations became mandatory. The presence and authorization requirement of the air traffic control guard, the compulsory documentation in the main flight log and the obligation to take off and land outside airfields , i.e. the prohibition to take off and land outside of airfields, should ensure complete monitoring of even the smallest airfields in order to escape from the Reich by plane, especially of Jewish citizens, bypassing the Reich escape tax , to prevent. With the Aviation Supervision Act and the subsequent implementing ordinance of 1939, the powers of the aviation supervision were further expanded. It was now allowed to issue its own ordinances and enforce these regulations and instructions with direct coercion or armed force.

In the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria , after regaining air sovereignty, many regulations for air supervision from the Third Reich were taken over directly, such as the mandatory presence of supervisory staff on small landing sites, the main flight log and mandatory airfields. At airports, the airport management was renamed to the person responsible for air supervision , the air control watch became the airfield operations manager in Austria and the flight controller in Germany . However, the rights of the flight controller as supervisory staff were limited by a sovereign activity to the enforcement of the airport operator's house rules .

Flight controllers were also called air traffic control personnel until 1959 . Today their name is air traffic controller . The trade union of the air traffic control union is published until today under "the flight leader".

Trivia

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SERA.2015 in the Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 923/2012
  2. ↑ a b Sample service instructions for flight controllers. (PDF) In: rp-kassel.hessen.de. Hessian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport and Regional Development, 2014, accessed on March 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ “GroßerBahnhof” for an outstanding woman from Juister. (PDF) Renate Kolde is 80 years old - the "Voice of the North" was the first and longest-serving female flight controller. In: www.1820diekunst.de. Ostfriesischer Kurier, 23 August 2011, p. 5 , archived from the original on 22 July 2016 ; accessed on March 8, 2020 .
  4. ^ Albert Grünberg - Air Policeman at Cologne Airport. In: www.luftfahrtarchiv-koeln.de. Histroisches Luftarchiv Cologne, accessed on March 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ RGBl. Born 1934, part 1, pp. 310-312 - Ordinance on the establishment of the Reich Aviation Administration of April 18, 1934
  6. ↑ Carl Pirath: Airports: spatial location, operation and design (=  research results of the Transport Science Institute for Aviation at the Technical University of Stuttgart . Volume 11 ). Reprint of the 1st edition from 1937. Springer, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-540-01242-9 , p. 501 .
  7. ↑ RGBl. Born 1936, Part 1, No. 78, p. 671 - Ordinance on air traffic of August 21, 1936
  8. ↑ Aviation Office Darmstadt is dissolved April 1, 1935. In: www.lagis-hessen.de, Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies, April 1, 2019, accessed on March 7, 2020 .
  9. ↑ RGBl. Born 1939, Part 1, p. 131 - Law on the Powers of the Aviation Authorities in Exercising Aviation Supervision (Aviation Supervision Act) of February 1, 1939
  10. ↑ RGBl. Born in 1939, part 1, p. 134 - Implementing ordinance to the law on the powers of aviation authorities when exercising aviation supervision (Aviation Supervision Act) of February 1, 1939