Positions and Responsibilities

Departure

As a departure controller, your primary responsibility is to efficiently get aircraft from outside of Tower's airspace to a point at which the aircraft is established on its filed route, and clear of any traffic, prior to handing the aircraft off to Center. In addition to this you are also responsible for providing Safety Alerts as required.

Approach

As an approach controller, your responsibility is to get the aircraft from the en-route environment to the tower environment as efficiently as possible. You are also responsible for issuing Safety Alerts as required and coordination with the appropriate controllers.

Theory vs Practice

In the following sections of the S3 Guide, you will learn some of the different aspects of being an S3 controller. Due to the dynamic nature of the positions, you will only learn the "theory". Your instructor will show you how to take this theory and put it into practice.

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