{"id":164275,"date":"2025-01-06T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-air-traffic-control\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T19:00:16","slug":"how-does-the-us-air-force-control-air-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=164275","title":{"rendered":"How Does The US Air Force Control Air Traffic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2034725\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-military-air-traffic-control\/\" >military provides airport traffic control at airports<\/a><\/span> not served by an             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"135393\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/faa\/\"  >FAA<\/a><\/span> or contract civil tower. This can be delegated to contractors, or it can be handled by the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> or other service branch. Air force bases can get very busy handling a broad range of aircraft, from massive C-5M Super Galaxies to fighter jets to secretive, stealthy reconnaissance drones (although it is hard to say         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033173\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/busiest-us-air-force-base\/\" >which is the busiest US Air Force base<\/a><\/span>). In times of combat operations, air traffic control may have to deal with an extremely challenging environment with a high sortie rate, many damaged aircraft making emergency landings, and even the base coming under attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force can control traffic by itself or it can contract various aspects of air force base operations to contractors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1832,396,240,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-traffic-control","category-aircraft","category-north-america","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164276,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164275\/revisions\/164276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}