A company is seeking to build the country’s first-ever remote air traffic control centre, which could handle traffic for multiple airports, on the site of an old Air Force base in Alabama, a newspaper reports.
Advanced ATC Inc., an air traffic control academy based in Valdosta, Georgia, announced plans Thursday to invest about USD 4.7 million at Craig Air Field, now a public airport in Dallas County, just southeast of Selma, the Selma Times-Journal reported. The company also announced it will establish an international training academy at the site.
The remote tower uses cameras, real-time video and other features, allowing air traffic controllers to remotely accomplish the duties they would previously have carried out in a traditional control tower, the company said.
