Name: 成為航空交通管制員的艱辛過程 | 英國天空 | 全集 (The Gruelling Process To Become An Air Traffic Controller | Skies Above Britain | Full Episode)
Uploaded: 2026-03-14T15:52:34.000Z
Duration: 55 min 8 s

London, one of the busiest cities on earth and a magnet for business and tourism.

倫敦，地球上最繁忙的城市之一，是商業和旅遊的熱點。

It pulls three and a half thousand planes a day into its five major airports, all bursting at the seams.

每天有三千五百架次的飛機進出它五個主要的機場，全都擠得水洩不通。

Orchestrating this daily rush is the job of NATS Swanwick, the UK's air traffic control hub.

負責調度這日常的繁忙景象，是英國的空中交通管制中心 NATS Swanwick 的工作。

Here controllers cram the growing number of flights into Southeast England's limited airspace.

在這裡，管制員們將日益增長的班機數量塞進東南英格蘭有限的空域。

We are a small island and we have five major airfields right in one little corner.

我們是一個小島，卻有五個主要的機場集中在一個小角落。

It's a lot of planes to get into a very small space with limited amounts of tarmac.

要在非常小的空間裡，加上有限的停機坪，讓這麼多飛機起降，確實不容易。

303, contact London with delegate 135 decimal 85.

303，請聯繫倫敦，頻率是 135.85。

Adding to today's workload, cloud bursts of heavy rain.

讓今天的工作量更增加的是，傾盆大雨。

What's the weather looking like out your window then?

那你窗外的天氣看起來怎麼樣？

Heathrow has just gone into Phys2 Holdings.

希斯洛機場剛進入 Phys2 Holdings。

Yeah, because the weather has now got to Heathrow and the rain has got to Heathrow and we've had to increase the spacing for all arrivals because the tower having difficulty seeing parts of the Runway.

對啊，因為現在天氣影響到希斯洛機場，大雨也影響到，我們得增加所有飛機的間隔，因為塔臺有點看不清楚跑道的某些部分。

And so part of the procedure is before you get into really low visibility.

然後在能見度非常低之前，其中一個程序是。

我們要進入一個叫做 VIZ2 的東西。

We've just gone in VIS2, which gives us a minimum four mile spacing.

我們剛進入 VIS2，這讓我們有最少四英里的間隔。

We just need to be aware of Dartmouth movements on the ground.

我們需要注意達特茅斯的地面動態。

Increasing the distance between aircraft from 3 miles to 4 has a domino effect, slowing traffic at other airports.

將飛機間隔從 3 英里增加到 4 英里，會產生骨牌效應，減慢其他機場的交通。

Even if there's no local rain, that'll drop over, won't it?

即使當地沒有下雨，那也會影響過來，對吧？

Because of the weather that we've had in the airspace, we've had to restrict the departures and so the knock on effect of all of this is that actually they're close to running out of stands at Gatwick.

因為我們空域的天氣狀況，我們不得不限制起飛，所以這一切的連鎖效應是，蓋威克機場的停機坪快要不夠用了。

Now the space on the ground, the tarmac is becoming full.

現在地面的空間，停機坪正在變滿。

So they know they're not going to get 16 for at least an hour and a half.

所以他們知道至少一個半小時內不會有 16 架。

All right, Terminal control, Lonnie speaking.

好的，終端控制檯，Lonnie 報告。

To prevent a jam on the ground, Steve cuts the number of planes allowed into gatwick's airspace from 27 an hour to 16.

為了避免地面壅塞，Steve 將獲準進入蓋威克空域的飛機數量從每小時 27 架減少到 16 架。

Battening down the hatches now until we can get through to the handover.

現在要嚴陣以待，直到我們能完成交接。

The weather should be through just after the handover, so fingers crossed, my colleague and his team will have a lovely afternoon while we go and have my cup of tea.

天氣應該在交接後就差不多好了，所以祈禱我同事和他團隊能有個愉快的下午，而我們可以去喝杯茶。

From 8 o' clock this morning, it's the job with the highest pressure at nats, keeping everyone safe entering or leaving London's Airspace, one of the busiest patches of sky in the world.

從今天早上八點開始，這份工作是全國壓力最大的，要確保大家進出倫敦空域的安全，這裡是世界上最繁忙的空域之一。

Planes are threaded through a spaghetti junction of invisible highways into stacks above the five main airports manned by up to five controllers.

飛機在錯綜複雜的無形航道中穿梭，進入由最多五位管制員負責監管的五個主要機場上方的航線。

The biggest, Heathrow, has four stacks, each filled with up to 10 circling planes, all carrying an average of 200 passengers.

其中最大的希斯羅機場，有四條航線，每條航線都有多達 10 架盤旋的飛機，每架平均載有 200 名乘客。

This can put up to 4,000 people in the hands of just one controller.

這意味著一位管制員可能要負責多達 4,000 人的安全。

Sometimes your heart's racing a bit redder than you would normally be.

But the second you start thinking of each of those aircraft as hundreds of people, which then adds up to thousands of people you're keeping safe and alive.

但一旦你開始想到每架飛機上都有數百人，加起來就是成千上萬你正在保護他們安全和生命的人。

Ultimately I think you just lose the plot, you go crazy.

最終我認為你會失去理智，會發瘋。

It's little wonder the path to becoming a controller is so tough.

難怪成為管制員的道路如此艱辛。

Each year just half a percent of the thousands who apply are accepted.

每年只有申請者中的百分之零點五被錄取。

Making getting into NATS harder than winning a place at Oxford or Cambridge.

這讓進入 NATS 比考上牛津或劍橋大學還難。

Today, after passing a series of aptitude tests, five applicants have arrived to start the three year course.

今天，通過一系列能力測驗後，有五位申請者抵達，準備開始為期三年的課程。

大家好，歡迎來到節目，我是 Jane Hayward。

This is our aerodrome simulator, which is fab.

這是我們的機場模擬器，超讚的。

它模擬了從塔樓望出去的樣子。

23 year old Tom Finch recently graduated with a maths degree.

23歲的 Tom Finch 最近剛拿到數學學位。

It's huge and ridiculous and really like amazing, the whole building.

整棟建築物又大又誇張，真的超厲害。

If you just want to introduce yourself to me and maybe something interesting about yourself.

如果你想簡單介紹一下自己，還有一些關於你的有趣事情。

I'm Tom, I'm from Warrington in the northwest and I've cycled from Land's End to John o' Groats for charity and from Warrington to Paris as I graduated.

我是 Tom，我來自西北邊的 Warrington，我為了慈善騎自行車從 Land's End 到 John o' Groats，畢業時也從 Warrington 騎到巴黎。

I applied for this because I saw him at a careers fair.

我看到他在就業博覽會上，所以就來申請了。

I was just working at my local McDonald's, just trying to earn some money while I waited.

我當時只是在我家附近的麥當勞打工，想說等的時候賺點錢。

I mean I don't really have like an aviation background.

我的意思是，我其實沒有什麼航空背景。

I used to do road cycling quite often I haven't for a while because injury from skateboarding.

我以前常騎公路車，但因為滑板受傷，有一陣子沒騎了。

20 year old Tim Christoph gave up his place at university and has left home for the first time to be here.

20歲的 Tim Christoph 放棄了他在大學的學位，第一次離家來到這裡。

When my mum heard I got the job she just sort of screamed and then hugged me.

我媽聽到我找到工作時，她就尖叫然後抱緊我。

She was like sad that I'm leaving home because I've never moved away before and now it's like moving away for good.

她有點難過我要離家，因為我從來沒有搬離過家，現在這就像是永遠的離開。

You've probably heard it from all sorts of people.

There is a tremendous amount of study and the first four weeks is quite tough.

有非常大量的學習，前四周會有點辛苦。

After a month of basic training, they'll be plunged into a series of tests, fail anyone, and it's off the course.

一個月基礎訓練後，他們就要面對一連串的測驗，沒過就淘汰。

It is the level of study, the complexity of what they study that puts a lot of pressure on them.

是學習的強度、內容的複雜度，讓他們壓力很大。

From the point they leave here, which hopefully been nine months time, they'll actually start working with live traffic.

從他們離開這裡，希望是九個月後，他們就會開始處理實際的交通。

But with a valid controller by their side, it's massive.

但有了合格的控制器在旁邊，這就太厲害了。

Historically had one guy that was doing fabulously well and he came in one day and said I can't take the responsibility and withdrew from the course.

過去有個學員表現非常出色，有一天他進來說我承受不了這個責任，然後退訓了。

Pressure on Gnats is partly the result of an explosion in budget airlines.

Gnats 的壓力部分來自廉價航空公司的爆炸性成長。

20 years ago they carried around 5 million passengers a year.

二十年前，他們一年載運大約五百萬名乘客。

Now they fly well over 16 times that number.

現在他們飛的趟數是當時的十六倍多。

Today Fergus Rack, a pilot for low cost Norwegian Airlines is scheduled to make two round trips to Europe in his Boeing 737.

今天，挪威低成本航空公司的飛行員 Fergus Rack 將駕駛他的波音 737 執行兩趟往返歐洲的班機。

We're flying a low cost airline and the aircraft needs to be in the air for the longest possible time.

我們搭乘的是低成本航空公司，飛機需要盡可能長時間地在空中飛行。

So the name of the game for us is to be very efficient, all working very solidly.

所以我們的目標就是非常有效率，大家都要很認真地工作。

We're going to try and aim to leave here at five past eight.

So you can start your briefing now if you like.

如果你們想現在就可以開始聽簡報了。

Between flights, the cabin crew clean the passenger compartment while Fergus does standard safety checks, checking that everything is where it should be, making sure that there's no hydraulic leaks, no fuel leaks.

在班機之間，機組人員會清潔乘客艙，同時 Fergus 會進行標準的安全檢查，確認一切就緒，確保沒有液壓油洩漏、沒有燃料洩漏。

I'm also doing a security check at the same time the stairways and bombs and devices that may have been, that may have been set on board the airplane.

我同時也在做安全檢查，檢查飛機上的樓梯、炸彈和裝置。

During the 30 minute turnaround, 26,000 liters of kerosene is pumped into the wings While up to 227 liters of waste is sucked out of the tanks.

在 30 分鐘的調度時間內，會將 26,000 公升的煤油打入機翼，同時將最多 227 公升的廢棄物從油箱抽出。

And before taking off, 125 safety checks are ticked off.

起飛前，會完成 125 項安全檢查。

We're just finishing off our last bits of paperwork and we can get ourselves underway for Berlin Schne.

我們正在完成最後的文書工作，然後就可以前往柏林施奈。

I've asked them to request that the fueler comes out immediately.

我已經請他們要求加油員立刻過來。

If you can avoid having to do monitored fueling, yeah, that will help.

如果可以避免進行監控加油，那就很有幫助。

The stubby shaped 737 affectionately known as the Pig, is the best selling civil aircraft ever built.

這架外型粗短、被暱稱為「豬」的 737，是史上最暢銷的民航機。

Somewhere in the world, one takes off every five seconds and Fergus is flying one of the latest.

全球每五秒就有一架起飛，而 Fergus 正在駕駛其中最新的一架。

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