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what we are doing in the present and what we will be doing in the future. A main aim of the celebrations will be to promote the profession to the outside, attracting young professionals to join the profession in demonstration that we work a high-tech environment using the latest technology. Finally, we will use this occasion to promote gender diversity and inclusion in Air Traffic Control. The lasting COVID crisis has forced us to reshuffle our plans a number of times. The current focus will be to have the main events during October 2022, in conjunction with the regional meetings. In addition, we will also use major events, such as WAC 2022 in Madrid and Paris Air Show in le Bourget in June 2023, to commemorate this important milestone. A commemorative book covering the
history of ATC is currently being written and will be published in October 2022. A Centenary issue of The Controller magazine is also in the planning. For this, we need your input. If you have not yet shared this already, we are looking for 100 ways to say Air Traffic Controller in your native language. 100 towers, 100 radar consoles, 100 strip board, 100 faces of ATC, 100 chairs you use in your operations room/tower and so on. Send us your photos to atc100@ifatca.org If you have any other ideas for the centenary edition or would like to volunteer to help with the edition, let us know! One of the only things that has not changed are the ATCOs: they are still just ordinary people doing an extraordinary job. We hope you will join us in celebrating this milestone for our profession! y atc100@ifatca.org
z 100 years difference: the new Dublin
Airport tower due to open in 2022. Inset is Croydon (UK) tower in 1922.
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credit Dublin tower: IAA
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