Air traffic control students tendencies of desirability levels during flight norms violations

Modern air traffic control process can be called complex one and it requires many efforts from air traffic control operators. Those efforts are applied into several directions like standard aircraft flight control, routine conversations, aircrafts passing between responsibility areas, etc. One of main direction for air traffic controller efforts appliance is decision taking in case of flight norms violation by aircraft. In case of lateral and longitudinal standard distances between aircrafts on different flight stages any mistake made by air traffic controller might lead to air accident with unpredictable results. Off course in most common case those violations doesn't lead to any kind of injuries or aircraft damage, but nevertheless all possibly harmful events are considered as threat to flight safety and thus must be prevented at all costs. Nowadays many different safety measures and means are used for air accidents preventions. Those measures include technical solutions, instructions, organizational means and others. From psychological approach some tests for stress-proof behaviour are applied and big amount of statistics is processed every year. Nevertheless lack of attention paid for personal air traffic controller's behaviour and other psycho-physiological peculiarities. One of those important peculiarities is air traffic controller's desirability levels. To find out tendencies in air traffic controllers desirability levels correspondent polling has been held. Results of polling shows air traffic control students opinions about cross-aircraft distance desirability concerning different amount of satisfaction per unit of distance. Received result are useful during air traffic norms and conditions change because they show, what are possible problems that may occur while norms values are changed. Also polling and its further analysis results may be used in educational process of air traffic controllers. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.