ATC
Gallery
ATC
Gallery
Welcome aboard!
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Believe it or not the tower is now 11 years old, opened in 1999. It's one of the tallest in the UK and stands at approx. 51 m |
The Visual Control Room (VCR) provides the controllers with unrestricted views of the whole airfield, and all the way out to the Peak District ...... on a good day! |
Down below is the Approach Radar Room |
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The Aerodrome Traffic Monitor (ATM) is the tower controllers best friend, helping him/her to plan the traffic |
The laser cloud base recorder is a useful bit of kit.... at the moment indicating cloud at 700 & 4000 feet. | We have our own radar simulator which is very realistic, so we can practice emergencies, radar and radio failures etc.......great fun! |
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| METCOM....displays the weather and airfield state for EMA, as well as transmitting it on the ATIS (128.225) | This is what the radar controller is looking at, a range of about 30 - 40 miles | VHF Direction Finder (VDF). This provides us with your QDM or QTE. |
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| The radar controllers eye! The Marconi S511 primary radar scanner situated on the north side, backed up by secondary radar from the NATS radar at Claxby, Lincs. | When we are in fog or low cloud the tower controller cannot see a thing. However, this Surface Movement Radar (SMR) shows us what is happening nearly 200' below us. In this case a B767 has just landed. | This is the touch screen airfield lighting panel, which is quite clever because it can set the lighting to the correct settings for the given wx or time of day |
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| This is the latest Frequentis 3020X Voice Communication System (VCS) recently installed at EMA. Provides touch screen access to all frequencies, direct lines to other ATC units and much more. | You can either walk up or take the lift, guess which is the more popular | Finally spare a thought for these guys, 200 passengers, limited viz, high workload and totally IMC! |