Aerospace Education Catalogue

Ingénieur du Contrôle de la Navigation Aérienne (MCTA)

• Organisation: ENAC
• Type of Course: Initial education
• Language(s): French
• Place: Toulouse (French Regions: Occitanie)
• Prepared diploma/grade/title: Diplôme d’ingénieur (French national engineering degree)
• Level of entry: French Baccalaureat + 2

Course Details

Objectives: No planes, no airport and no drivers ... without air traffic control engineers. Ensuring the safety and smooth flow of air traffic: this is the mission of the control engineer. A major challenge that requires him a spirit of analysis and decision-making very sharp. Volume of traffic, weather, flight plans of aircraft ... : Control Engineer manages all this information simultaneously monitoring each aircraft. Eye of the driver providing information on the surrounding devices, the control engineer is therefore a necessary complement. A plane should change its speed or altitude to avoid collision? It is up to the control engineer to anticipate, react to a quarter second and make their decisions in real time. A decision that is responsible for 100%. The profession is on ICNA airports in Regional Control Centers in France or in overseas territories.

Intended for: Students

Degree Level (EU) : 7 - (EQC level or equivalent)

Admission requirements: Dedicated competitive examination.

Duration and terms: 3 or 2 years depending on the entrance year.

Dedicated web site: http://www.enac.fr/fr/mcta-controleur-aerien

Disciplines

• Applications, Operations

Topics

• 1 - Physics and Environment: radiation, particles, fields, debris, climatic and vibratory conditions, meteorology
• 14 - Transports, Intelligent Transportations Systems (ITS), Mobility, Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
• 18 - Human Factors, Human Machine Interfaces, Operations, Exploitation, Air Traffic Management
• 19 - Law and Business Engineering: Law, Regulations, Standards, Management, Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Purchasing, Contracts, Intellectual Property, etc.