Classic ICAO ATC/Pilot Training Films

[dutch]

For your viewing pleasure...

Here are some training films covering details of classic era ATC and navigation. My apologies if they have been posted here before - I didn't find any reference to them in a search. (Most are not dated so I have guessed at the general date for those.)

These are super valuable here because the audience is professional pilots and ATC students rather than the general public. I'm learning tons from these.

Enroute Procedures Coordination (1953)

Instrument Landing System (ILS) (intro missing c.1954)

Fundamentals of Approach Control (c. 1955)

Ground Controlled Approach Procedures (c. 1957)

Separation of Traffic: Aerodrome Control (c. 1962)

Aerodrome Control VFR (c. 1963)

Aerodome Control IFR (c. 1963)

Air Traffic Control Fundamentals (intro missing c. 1964)

Approach and Landing Aids (c. 1964)

Approach Coordination (c. 1965)

Area Navigation (1968)

Dutch

[Bjoern]

I love these old training films, even if for nothing more than relaxation (when without background music) because of the monotone narrators.

[Tom/CalClassic]

I've gotten through the first two and they are great. Lots of classic era radio talk, which is somewhat different than today.

[dutch]

The talk sounds authentic too, obviously using real pilots and controllers, so unlike the stilted snippets of ATC-talk we hear in the PR films all too carefully enunciated by actors.

These are really gold for me in showing how it actually worked. I've read the propliner tutorials and the CAM-60 manuals and yet this is the best explanation of practical procedural ARTC I've found so far.

[awralls]

Wow, nice find.

What I'd really like to know would be the dates that radar approach control vectors took over from the beacon/stacking system. One assumes it started at larger international airports in Europe and the US, but it would be extremely helpful to be able to plot the progress both in time and geographically.

Andy

[Tom/CalClassic]

All I have is the single time point (1962/63) in this thread:

calclassic.proboards.com/thread/9400/generic-gca-fs9-fsx-available

If others have Jeppesens from other years then that could be possible. The airports with radar vectors available have an approach listed as type Radar/ASR.

[Defender]

Might not help but the FAA history record is sometimes useful,

www.faa.gov/about/history/chronolog_history/media/b-chron.pdf

First reference to Airport Surveillance Radar is 1947 and the 25 August 1960 entry indicates that the first ASR was commissioned in 1951.

Chapter and verse on approach procedures is Section 609 of the Air Navigation Regulations and a 1961 compilation used to be available as a free download from Google books but sorry can't find it now. It indicates that it was at the pilot's discretion whether to accept radar service or to use the published approach docs.

Bill