air traffic control

(From my website. The full article is here.) As you can read about here and here, I'm going back to flight school as I re-transition back into the cockpit. My session yesterday in my Sportys ground school course was how to talk to the control tower. Control towers aren't found at every...

I am a student PPL, I know/understand the concept of centers and the service they provide, but I often find it confusing to differentiate centers from regional, so what is the key difference among regional approach VS regional departure VS Center? do they have the same frequency? Thanks

I'm pretty fresh to learning about the nuances of ATC and want to know why ATC assigns squawk codes in the first place. I've seen pictures of an ATC's radar scope, and it includes the ICAO airline designator and the flight number. Without a squawk code, would that information still be there? If...

I haven't flown into a tower controlled airport in awhile and wanted to "knock the rust off". I'm sure there are several low time VFR pilots like myself that are a bit apprehensive about doing this...don't be! I filmed my interactions with ATC during Approach, Tower hand off, and Departure. I...