A professional who receives and transmits flight plans, meteorological, navigational, and other information in air traffic control station to perform preflight and emergency service for airplane pilots. Responsibilities include:

• Accepts flight plans from pilots in person or by telephone and reviews them for completeness.
• Routes plans for operating under instrument flight rules to control center and for operating under visual flight rules to station in vicinity of destination airport, using radio, teletype, radiotelephone, radiotelegraph, telephone, or interphone.
• Provides meteorological, navigational, and other information to pilots during flight, using radio.
• Relays traffic control and other instructions concerned with aircraft safety to pilots.
• Radios such information as identifying landmarks, beacons, and available landing fields to pilots in flight.
• Maintains file of plans for operating under visual flight rules until completion of flight, and contacts facilities along route of flight to secure information on overdue aircraft.
• Reports lost aircraft to control center for rescue or local emergency services.
• Monitors such radio aids to navigation as range stations, fan markers, and voice communication facilities, and notifies air personnel of availability of these facilities.
• Maintains written records of messages transmitted and received.