Description

The tower (TWR) controller (also referred to as "aerodrome controller") is responsible for the provision of air traffic services to aerodrome traffic. Their area of responsibility includes:

• the manoeuvring area, i.e. runway(s) and taxiway(s). It should be noted that although the TWR controller communicates with aircraft on the apron(s) as well, this is not part of their area of responsibility.
• the airspace in the vicinity of the aerodrome

The TWR controllers are situated at the aerodrome control tower as they rely mostly on visual observation to do their job. By contrast, area and approach controllers work in operations (ops) rooms and their main tool is the situation display. The TWR controller may also work in an ops room in case a remote tower solution is used. However, this will visually resemble a real tower with large screens providing information from the remote cameras.

Provision of Air Traffic Service

There are three major types of traffic serverd by the TWR controller: