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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 - Environment and Physical Measurement: Radiation, Particles, Solar Wind, Debris, Mechanical and Thermal environment, Aerology, Meteorology, Climate, Environmental Measurements and Analysis, Physico-chemical Analysis, Sensors, Metrology, Vacuum Techniques, etc.
  • 14 - Aeronautical and Space Vehicles: Aircraft, Balloons, Drones, Launch vehicles, Satellites, Cubsats, High Altitude Platforms, Landers, Rovers, Manned Flights, etc.
  • 18 - Aerospace Systems Infrastructure and Operations: Airport Platforms, Launch Bases, Control and Mission Centers, Air and Space Traffic Management, In-Orbit Services, Operations, Planning, Man-Machine Interfaces, Human Factors, etc.
  • 19 - Business Engineering and Legal Issues: Laws and treaties, Space law, Regulations, Standards, Business Management, Finance, Managerial Monitoring, Costs, Purchasing, Macro and Micro Economics, Marketing, Contracts, Intellectual Property