Acronyms and Glossary of Terms

Raydon Happy Camper OKC

Welcome to StuckMic.com! As a new Air Traffic Control Applicant/Prospect you may find yourself faced with wave after wave of strange terms and words that will leave your head spinning as you try to move through this FAA hiring process as fast and efficiently as possible.

Here for your deciphering pleasure is a list of commonly used acronyms and terms along with their definition/explanation!

*If you would like to add anything or suggest any corrections please PM myself or any one of the other moderators on this website.*

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7110.65S: The holy bible of ATC operations standards and procedures

ARTCC: Air Route Traffic Control Center

ASAP: Automated Staffing Application Process

ATCSCC: Air Traffic Control System Command Center

ATCT: Airport Traffic Control Tower

AT-SAT: Air Traffic-Selection Andraining (Or, Standardized Aptitude Test)

CTI: Collegiate Training Initiative

GEO PREF: GEOgraphical PREFerence

FAA: Mother Dearest (Federal Aviation Administration)

FOL: Final (Firm) Offer Letter

FSS: Flight Service Station

JC: Commonly referred to as ###############

OTS: Off The Street (no prior ATC or CTI experience)

OKC: This is where all the cool kids go (Oklahoma City)

PEPC: Pre Employment Processing Center

PUBNAT: PUBlic-NATional announcement (what the FAA uses on ASAP)

TERMINAL: Another word used to describe a Tracon/non-tower Air traffic control position.

TOL: Tentative Offer Letter.

TRACON: Terminal Radar Approach CONtrol

VRA: Veterans Re-alignment Act

Below here is the list of major Air Traffic Control Centers around the US. (TRACON/ARTCC)

ZAB Albuquerque
ZAU Chicago
ZBW Boston
ZDC Washington
ZFW Dallas-Ft Worth
ZHU Houston
ZID Indianapolis
ZJX Jacksonville
ZKC Kansas City
ZLA Los Angeles
ZLC Salt Lake City
ZMA Miami
ZME Memphis
ZMP Minneapolis
ZNY New York
ZOA Oakland
ZOB Cleveland
ZSE Seattle
ZTL Atlanta
ZDV Denver
ZAN Alaska

Some other commonly shared acronyms/terms shared amongst applicants are:

PUBNAT1 FEBOTS "February"... etc etc
PUBNAT2 APEOTS
PUBNAT3 MAYOTS
PUBNAT4 JUNROTS
PUBNAT5 JEWLOTS