What It Takes To Be An Air Traffic Controller At The World's Busiest Airport

God bless any and all ATC's. You guys are incredible

i am truly excited to hopefully join! my stepfather is a retired ATC manger, he went from Chicago to ATL to Memphis to B-HAM, he said i could do it and i trust him. the top of the Memphis tower is my personal favorite view!

I designed Air Traffic Control systems, you’d be amazed how unsophisticated an airport tower is, only the best towers have surface movement control systems. Most towers use a radar display, paper strips, weather monitoring, and the old reliable Mark One Eyeball 👁️

Mad respect for ATC workers. Especially the ones during 9/11 dealing with landing all the planes in the country.

I still cant wrap my head around how the human brain even has the capacity to do that job, hats off to all of you ATC's!!

ROOOOOOOOOOOOLANDO!!!!! It's good to know that Rally's hair is as gray as mine. ATC will do that to you!

We’ll se how busy it really is.. I have a microsofts flights sims

how is atlanta the busiest airport and not one of those UAE airport like doha/dubai since they are literally located in the middle of the world (hub)... or maybe singapore?

Air traffic controllers have insane pressure, they have to be very smart. At least here in Sweden. I think it's a bunch of tests and IQ tests and stuff to get in. But the salary is also superhigh

Sounds simple.

High stress job!

Hello am in Zambia a country in south east Africa, just got employed as an air traffic controller at a small airport, with very few traffic how do I make my self better.

my dad retired as atc and i just got my job offer. still have to make it through training but im crying in joy i can take after my amazing father hopefully. just the opportunity to be a atc is a blessing. thank you to all the men and women keeping the airways safe.

Is it just me finding out that the windows in the air track control room are opaque😅 I thought they be see through to also give some visual aid in helping control air traffic😆

How do you deal with technical difficulties?

If it weren’t for Long Beach, John Wayne,Ontario, and Burbank taking some of the load from LAX it would be the busiest in the world.

$150k / year is not remotely worth the stress of this shit. Especially in recent years of inflation.

My speech therapy.

These guys are low key high functioning board game tragedy.

Wow that’s Stressful even tho it looks like they’re used to it

Imagine this job in the days cocaine was legal and readily available... my dear God...
Then the days they got rid of cocaine and demanded intelligence with no moral work ethics...
Then they finally get ethics and I bet there’s still a lot of bullshit these people go through.

I'm studying to be an air traffic controller and it is insane😭

this looks, sounds, and actually is hard as hell. but man, i would love to spend at least one day on a control tower to experience a normal day (well, maybe not this control tower lmao, big respect to this people)

I frequently say a prayer for all pilots in the air and active air traffic controllers. Also for the air craft mechanics. What a responsibility they all have. God Bless you.

I think they should be payed at least 200K. Just think about the responsibility. Just one aircraft coming in with 400 people hardly no visibility and lands save Wow. the people exit with not thinking what was behind all this landing. Again 200K min I would be glad to pay more for the ticket. Thank you all for the fantastic work.I'm being awn-est I could never do it.

im starting a one year training program for becoming air traffic controller, is it 24/7 stress? or is it less stressing in smaller airports?

That was really interesting! I learned a lot!

30 planes ✈️ at a time?
Man i only remember to go to work, go home, eat, text my girl and brush my teeth 😂😂😂😂

190,000 flights per year? 😂 Try closer to 1,000,000. Heck, even the airport I control had 250,000. Atlanta is next level crazy, busy.

Worlds airports.pilots.lees sons is a pilot.

Not sure why can't ATC be automated.. like traffic lights

Istanbul also has 5 runways similar to this airport impressive how massive they are

I like that physical strips are still used. I guess having physical strips is conceptually helpful

Can’t talk about standard ATC terminology at ATL without mentioning that (for obvious reasons) they use Dixie instead of Delta for taxiway D.

I want to do air traffic control in South Africa

After watching that video, I feel like they're not paid enough lol

12 - 59 months for training ? Seems like an okay job level of stressful seeing how fast the guy speaks. His idea and level of content can reduce less to finish his idea faster. Speaking fast is important. Not sure how difficult it is but I think with 12 months of training. You should be good for the job. Not sure why there’s no Asian or other ethnicity in the field seeing how mentally stressful the job is they should excel in it

According to FAA website, ATC salary during training period is less than 40K, no thanks. I’ve aged out regardless

They make it sound a lot harder than it really is

i'm currently working as an ATC here in India and boy the work is tough and stressful sometimes but we are trained for these for years . Salary wise its good 👍😊 but the risk and accountability is huge cause too many lives are in your hands and this is the main reason why ATC is one of the most stressful job in the world 🌎 !!!!

i thought Heathrow was the busiest airport in the world 😅

Controlling 30 planes at once is about 25 planes too many. I think it's unsafe and something should be done about it. This info is hair raising, along w/ my eyebrows. Makes me think twice about flying now. It's a big wonder how they don't have to manage 40 planes . it's ridiculous. It's asking for trouble. It's unsafe.🤔

They had a break on 9.11 when all aircraft were grounded!

seems like this is much harder than being a pilot

I’m stressed out watching the intro🫣

And I thought my job was hard 😂

RADIO ETIQUETTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TWO-TWO-TWO.

Stress is why these guys make bank. No hires after 30, and they usually age out by 40-45 or move into management.

The view must be pretty up there