How do air traffic controllers manage landing and takeoffs in?
The aircraft take of and landings are computer controlled by a combined NAS NERC computer. Having said that its due to be replaced soon. Its run from Swanwick. The people at Heathrow its self are concerned with moving the aircraft around the airport rather than controlling actual flying aircraft. I was one of the software engineers working on the systems at West Drayton on the NAS computer which is the same as the US ATC. The system is also related to the E3 AWACS. As far as i know i am the only person in the UK that has worked on both NAS and AWACS versions of the software in the UK