AVweb | Control Towers Don't Do What You Think They Do @AVweb | Uploaded June 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Pilots deal with control towers all the time and most think they know what the tower is supposed to do, but...probably not. In this video, AVweb's Paul Bertorelli explains what air traffic control towers are actually supposed to do. And it isn't to keep airplanes from colliding in mid-air, but on the ground. Yes, really.