The Air-Traffic Controller

To the layman, air-traffic control is one of the more exotic jobs created by advanced technology, on a par with computers, high speed aircraft and complex chemical plant. For the applied psychologist, too, it presents a variety of interesting facets : it is a very new profession, concerned with rapidly developing procedures and equipment, and there is considerable evidence of high task demands on the human beings within the system. Air-traffic control (ATC) tasks are prime examples of the trend towards a reliance on perceptual and cognitive skills, and away from the more familiar motor skill demands of craft work.

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