Airway control center Berlin
The airway control central Berlin , also air traffic control center in Berlin , English: Berlin Air Route Traffic Control Center (BARTCC) , was from 1949 to 1990 an authority of the three Western Allies United States , Britain and France in the military section of the airport Tempelhof (Tempelhof Air Base) in the US sector of West Berlin , who monitored and controlled air traffic through the air corridors and the Berlin area. They thus included the air traffic services (ATS) for flights to the Soviet zone.
In the Allied Aviation Security Center Berlin , English: Berlin Air Safety Center (BASC), all flights in the Berlin Control Zone (BCZ) and through the air corridors had to be registered at least two hours in advance and approved by the representatives of the four powers. If one of these did not agree, she stamped the corresponding flight security card with "Security of the flight not guaranteed", which was mostly done by the Soviets. This did not prevent such flights, but they happened at your own risk and were still subject to the actual air traffic control by the Berlin Air Route Traffic Control Center (BARTCC). The Berlin Airway Control Center (BARTCC) granted the air traffic controllers in the responsible tower take-off and corridor entry permits to the pilot. The US air traffic controllers usually changed every two to three years. In the 1980s, the BARTCC was manned by around 46 US air traffic controllers, five French and four British air traffic controllers.
After the reunification of Germany in 1990 and the end of the Cold War, the authority was officially dissolved under Allied control on December 31, 1992 and had been under the supervision of the Federal Air Traffic Control Authority (BFS) since January 1, 1991 . Until June 22, 1994, 36 soldiers of the United States Air Force supported the BFS or its successor organization Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) as part of a logistical support group to build a new structure for East German airspace. The Berlin Air Route Traffic Control Center was finally closed on December 31, 1994.
