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What (who) is TRACON - definition


TRACON         
Centro de Controle Terminal (é também conhecido como Terminal Radar Approach CONtrol ou TRACON nos Estados Unidos) é um centro de controle de tráfego aéreo que está localizado dentro das vizinhanças de um aeroporto. Esta área de controle que em média está localizada num raio de 40 a 54NM (ou aproximadamente de 72 a 98 km), numa altitude que compreende do MSL (Nível Médio do Mar) até 14.
Examples of use of TRACON
1. Boston TRACON assumed responsibility for the airspace and placed two aircraft in a holding pattern until the controller returned.
2. Less than a minute into the flight, he radioed an air traffic controller at New York TRACON, or Terminal Radar Approach Control, in Westbury, N.Y.
3. "You have about eight miles, or about two minutes, to figure it out and make it work" after TRACON hands off the arrivals, Adams said.
4. "It‘s probably going to take all day to work through the backlog." The TRACON facility, short for Terminal Radar Approach Control, handles flights for Los Angeles, Lindbergh, Orange County‘s John Wayne, and 18 other regional airports.
5. Krakowski said the problem appeared to be confined to the Dallas–Fort Worth TRACON, a facility that controls flight below 10,000 feet and within 30 miles of the Dallas–Fort Worth airport and several smaller airports nearby.