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Handling of a Flight Services
Whoever wants to fly across Italian airspace, weather they are airlines or private pilots, has to submit a flight plan to ENAV. The Control Tower (TWR-Aerodrome Control Service) guarantees safety to the aircraft on the airport and its vicinity. The Ground Controller is responsible of controlling aircraft ground movement, from the moment of departure from their gate and while taxiing. Once his task is accomplished, the Ground Controller hands the flight over to the Tower Controller whose duty is to give aircraft the authorization to take off so that a safety distance from all the other aircraft is guaranteed. The Approach Control Service (APP) is responsible for routing aircraft just airborne, allowing them to climb to join an airway.
The handling of the flight passes then to the Area Control Center (ACC), whose duty is to harmonize each aircraft entrance and exit from the consistent traffic flowing along inside the airways.
Aircraft are assigned different flight levels and they are given trajectories to follow, so that they always remain apart from one another until they will be passed again to the APP. This latter will handle each airplane`s approach establishing the correct sequence and will lead them since they leave the airways to begin their descent till they line up with the runway. Once the aircraft is established on the landing path and has the airport in sight, the control of the flight is passed to the control tower of destination which controls the aircraft up to its gate.
In case of aircraft entering or leaving the Italian airspace, the controllers and systems constantly talk to the adjacent foreign units by sending and receiving news about flights to allow the relevant unit to get ready to get charge of the traffic.
