Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Department of Air Traffic Control

Profile of the Programme

The aim of air traffic control is ensuring the flight safety of the airborne aircraft at the airport and its vicinity, regulating the air traffic flow and increasing the total sytem efficiency. In full compliance with the national and international standards, Air Traffic Control Department of Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics trains air traffic controller candidates at the undergraduate level. The instruction process mainly consists of mastering the basic foundational courses that are essential for air traffic control, theoretical courses, and the hands-on practice of these theoretical courses in air traffic control simulators. This instruction also provides the scientific foundation that is necessary to solve traffic system problems such as air traffic delays, capacity problems, and flight-path prediction-collision prevention.
Air traffic controller candidates are required to have a minimum of Level 4 English determined by the International Civil Aviation Organization and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Turkey. Therefore, students that successfully pass the English proficiency test at the beginning of the semester can directly enroll at the undergraduate program. Those who fail this test go on to study English for one year at the School of Foreign Languages. In order to improve students’ English skills, at least 30 percent of the courses in the program, simulator courses in particular, are conducted in English. Utilizing the latest technology, the program aims to teach the basics of aviation, air traffic control methods, and to foster students’ researching and problem solving skills through practical and theoretical teamwork. Moreover, the students are given a chance to get accustomed to simulator settings through their virtual pilot internships that last for 10 work days at the end of their freshman year. The unit internships at the end of the junior year take 30 work days and these internships are required to take place at busy airports in terms of air traffic in Turkey. These unit internships and the airports that the students are assigned to are determined by the program in cooperation with the General Directorate of State Airports Authority. Students actively reinforce both their theoretical knowledge from their unit internships and their experiences in the simulation environments with real-life air traffic control unit internships. Virtual Pilot Internship and the Unit Internship are mandatory internships for the air traffic control program.

As part of the program, a majority of the courses are carried out one-on-one in the aerodrome control and radar control simulators, with two students for each instructor. To be able to graduate, students are also required to take “ Applications for Development of Air Traffic Management” and “ Simulation of Air Traffic Control and Operations” courses in their senior year, and prepare projects for these courses and present them first as a poster and later before a panel.

Air traffic control program has the latest technology in terms of both instruction and research-development, in addition to having a radar and aerodrome control simulator equipped with voice-recognition technology that allows self-learning. The radar simulator has 12 work positions. Aerodrome control simulator enables 360-degree vision through 10 ceiling projectors. The aerodrome control simulator has six large Turkish airports and a generic airport uploaded and ready for simulation. Both of these simulators increase the learning efficiency of our students to a great extent and enables various air traffic management problems to be analyzed.

Programme Director & ECTS Coord.

BÖLÜM BAŞKANI
PROF. DR. ÖZNUR USANMAZ
BÖLÜM BAŞKAN YARDIMCISI
DR. ÖĞR. ÜYESİ ERTAN ÇINAR
DOÇENT ÖZLEM ŞAHİN
ANABİLİM DALI BAŞKANI
PROF. DR. ÖZNUR USANMAZ
ECTS BÖLÜM KOORDİNATÖRÜ
DR. ÖĞR. ÜYESİ ERTAN ÇINAR

General admission requirements stated under Info on the Institution on this website are being applied to start this programme.
Only Turkish citizens are accepted.Every year, student applicants that have the YGS base score or higher and meeting the health and age requirements for air traffic controllers are admitted to the program on the basis of their special aptitude test scores. The program accepts 15 students through a special aptitude test. The requirements for each year are announced in July.

Recognition of Prior Learning

Depending on the degrees awarded, theoretical or practical courses taken as part of a degree (completed or not completed) may lead to recognition of these as prior learning by the programme administration. The students who have taken courses in another institution in Turkey or abroad can ask for credit and grade transfer. The executive boards of relevant programme will decide on the courses to be transferred covering students' entire academic program once and for all with the condition that the request for transfer be made within the first week of the academic year, the requests cannot be repeated.
This program requires compulsory Intensive English Language Training. The students are exempt from the Compulsory program if they have score of 70 or above from the centralized exemption exam, or present at least 65 from KPDS/ÜDS, 60 from IBT,140 CBT, 460 PBT TOEFL or 5,5 from IELTS.

Qualification Requirements and Regulations

A student is required to successfully complete the designated program of courses meet a minimum of 240 ECTS credit requirement and have a minimum GPA of 2.00/4.00 and no FF, DZ or YZ grades.

Access to Further Studies

May apply to master's or doctorate programmes in any field or proficiency in fine arts programmes
Graduates of the Air Traffic Control undergradute program can have their Master’s degree in the Department of Air Traffic Control, which is part of the Graduade School of Sciences.

Graduation Requirements

A student is required to successfully complete the designated program of courses meet a minimum of 240 ECTS credit requirement and have a minimum GPA of 2.00/4.00 and no FF, DZ or YZ grades.

Occupational Profiles of Graduates

Graduates of the Air Traffic Control Department who have been certificated as student air traffic controller by General Directorate of State Airports Authority (DHMİ) have their job training at the Aerodrome Control Tower of Anadolu University for a period of two months after graduation. Graduates who have successfully completed their job training take air traffic controller license exam, organized by Republic of Turkey Ministry of Transport and Communication Directorate General of Civil Aviation. Graduates, who have taken the license, work as assistant air traffic controller at the airports of General Directorate of State Airports Authority. Assignment requirement is KPSS 3 score type and at least 70.

Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

A variety of assessment methods such as mid-term(s), assignment(s), exercise(s), project(s), practice(s), and a final exam are implemented in the programme. Assessment methods may include classical test(s), multiple-choice test(s), homework(s), performance evaluation(s), and product evaluation(s). In order to graduate from the programme, cumulative GPA must be minimum 2.00. A course grade is constituted by evaluating the above stated elements and given by using letters. Letter grades and their associated coefficients are as follows;
In department of Air Traffic Control it is suggested to make; 2(two) mid-term examinations and 1 (one) final examination and 1(one) prep for theoritical courses. 2(two) applied mid-term examinations and 1 (one) applied final examination for simulation courses.Internship assessments are made through internship book.

Grade	Coefficient
AA	4,0
AB	3,7
BA	3,3
BB	3,0
BC	2,7
CB	2,3
CC	2,0
CD	1,7
DC	1,3
DD	1,0
FF	0,0