Fort worth Center

PILOT OUTREACH TOUR PROGRAM

- A program designed for pilots -

Educate - Enlighten - Experience

Conveniently located just south of DFW Airport

13800 FAA Blvd, Fort Worth TX 76155

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Student pilots

Build confidence with air traffic control and learn how they can help you

Licensed GA Pilots

Learn how you fit into the NAS as either a VFR or IFR pilot and how to maximize your safety & efficiency

Professional Pilots

Maximum forward speed, then reduce to 250. See why it happens along with how our airspace works and other nuances of jet operations and ATC

Program Overview

The FAA/NATCA Pilot Outreach Program at Fort Worth Center offers an opportunity for pilots and air traffic controllers to bridge the gap between both sides of the radio.

Mission

Promote aviation safety for pilots through education and familiarization of the job, workload, and technological capabilities of air traffic controllers.

What to Expect

Each tour includes an in-depth classroom presentation, Q&A with controllers, and an opportunity to sit with controllers in the control room while they work live traffic. Tours last for approximately 2 hours.

More than a Tour

Facility tours are often "This is the tower/radar, any questions?" We take a more formal approach with our detailed presentation, catering to that tour's specific audience. Airline pilots will have a different presentation than VFR general aviation pilots, who will have a different presentation than military pilots. By targeting our audience per tour, we can be sure to keep the discussion relevant for everyone.

When are the Tours?

Tours are provided by our controllers, staffing permitting, with no routine schedule. Once you join our waitlist, we'll contact you when you're next in line for a tour.

Location

Fort Worth Center is located just several miles south of DFW Airport, adjacent to the American Airlines HQ Campus at 13800 FAA Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76155.

Who's it for?

Student Pilots (after student solo)

Student pilots will benefit the most from this program if they have already earned a student solo endorsement, so we encourage them to hold-off on signing up until that point. During the classroom presentation, we'll discuss what you look like on the radar, VFR flight following, weather, tips from controllers, the differences between Towers, Approach Controls, and Centers, and more.

In the control room, we'll do our best to seat student pilots on the low-altitude sectors of which they typically fly in order to see our side of the airspace first-hand.

Student pilots will leave the experience with an enhanced knowledge of air traffic control procedures and an improved confidence with keying the mic and working with ATC.

Licensed General Aviation Pilots

Rated pilots from 40 hours to 4,000 hours will benefit from our program. During the classroom portion of the program, we'll discuss VFR, IFR, and everything in-between. We'll go over the importance of VFR flight following, some nuances of IFR approaches as it pertains to ATC, airspace, IFR traffic flows, weather, and more.

Once we get to the control room, pilots will be able to sit with controllers as they work with live traffic. This will provide pilots with an up-close look at how they look from ATC's side of the radio.

Professional Pilots

Airline pilots spend 90% of their flight talking to Centers as they fly across the country, yet most have never stepped foot inside of one. Not only do Centers look very different than Approach Controls and Control Towers, but their equipment, procedures and separation requirements are often also different than the Towers and TRACONs.

In the classroom portion of the experience, we'll discuss airspace, traffic management routes, weather, SIDs and STARs flows, approaches, controller-to-controller coordination on "the landline" and more.

In the control room, pilots will have an opportunity to sit with controllers as they work traffic into and out of the DFW metroplex.

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