If you’ve seen Airport Live over the last few nights, you’ve probably seen Dave Marshall, Head of Training, talking about air traffic control. So how did Dave get into Air Traffic Control? We caught up with him to find out.

If you’ve ever wondered just how an air traffic control tower is built then our time lapse footage of the construction of one of the country’s newest will show you.

If you saw Airport Live last night, you’d have seen Ady Dolan controlling aircraft at London Heathrow. So how did Ady get into Air Traffic Control? We caught up with him to find out.

The first episode of Airport Live aired last night and a number of NATS people featured, including Steph Kelly. We caught up with Steph to talk about being a Heathrow controller and featuring in the BBC 2 show.

Most, if not all of us who have flown into London Heathrow will have experienced their aircraft being ‘held’ – circling on the outskirts of the airport – before being given clearance to land. So why does it happen – and is it necessary?

We’ve been delving through the archives and uncovered some great old photographs of air traffic control at Heathrow in the 1940s and 50s. We thought you might like to see them.

Jon Proudlove reckons his “office” has the best view from its windows of anywhere in the UK – and it would be hard to disagree. Why? Because Jon is the General Manager of Air Traffic Control at Heathrow Airport.

NATS air traffic control operations at Heathrow Airport will be in the spotlight in a new live TV event broadcast over four nights next month.