Air Traffic Control, Cork Airport ( EICK / ORK ) - Irish Skies Pod

Irish Skies Pod visits the AirNav Ireland Air Traffic Control Tower at Cork Airport (EICK / ORK). Operations Manager, Martin O'Keeffe, takes us through the Tower and the Cork ATC Operation as we observe the Air Traffic Controllers guide the aircraft in and out of Cork Airport. We also look at how ATC handle the intersecting runway operation. This is a real-time observation of the Cork ATC operated that morning by Mick O'Riordan, Kian Harte, Cian Heffernan, Will Twomey & Stephen Hand. Details about the AirNav Ireland Student Controller Programme can be found at : https://www.airnav.ie/careers/student... PLEASE LIKE & SHARE THIS EPISODE and PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL. BUY ME A COFFEE at https://buymeacoffee.com/irishskiespod If you have enjoyed this episode, please, via the Buy Me A Coffee link above, help support Irish Skies Pod. It's a self-funded, self-started and self-operated "one-man-band", however, time and expense is incurred in producing the channel content and your support would be greatly appreciated. 0:01 Introduction 0:45 Traffic Figures and Airport Layout 1:44 Martin O'Keeffe, Operations Manager, AirNav Ireland 1:50 Approach Radar 5:42 Surface Movements (Ground) Control 10:55 Single Runway Operation 12:00 Handover at Approach Radar position 12:58 Air Movements (Tower) Control 16:40 Backtrack Operations 18:45 Ryanair landing Runway 34 19:28 Cork passenger figures 20:12 Traffic sequence update 20:37 Training environment discussion 21:45 Tower Controller requests Ground Controller to organise a bird scaring patrol 22:13 AFTA reports windshear 23:15 AirNav Ireland Student Controller Programme location assignment 25:00 Ryanair landing Rwy 34 25:30 Flight Progress Strip Bay and Runway Protection 26:50 Rescue 6 goes onto the airfiled to disperse birds 27:23 Cross-runway operation demonstrated 30:27 RYR91CZ holds on Txy B short of Rwy 25 32:30 RYR91CZ cleared to backtrack 33:05 Conclusion ‪@IrishSkiesPod‬ ‪@AirNavIreland‬ ‪@AFTAIRELAND‬ ‪@AerlingusIolar‬ ‪@ryanairnewskies1411‬ ‪@corkairporttv‬ ​ ‪@EoghanCorry1‬