Air Traffic Control Glyphs

Sutton Glyphs

I know the Air Traffic System and modern aircraft come well equipped and don't need these particular glyphs, but this page helps show that Bliss can be very adaptable to different areas of life.

Air Traffic Control

LEAR 35T, DESCEND AND MAINTAIN FLIGHT LEVEL 230

Lear 35T

Out of 380 for 230, Lear 35 Tango

Air Traffic Control

LEAR 35 TANGO, TRAFFIC 11 O'CLOCK, 7 MILES

Lear 35T

35 Tango's Looking

Now, of course these glyphs won't be coming to a radar screen near you anytime soon. And we wouldn't want air traffic controllers looking in a chatroom with glyphs instead of looking at their radar screens or through the large glass windows of the local control tower itself. So what use might glyphs like these be someday if a visual language system were coming into use?

Icons might be helpful in teletype transcripts of ATC communications, for auditing live or later. In actual use of course, the icons would be smaller than above with an option to enlarge them by mouse hovering or clicking:

ATC

LEAR 35T, TURN LEFT HEADING 290, VECTORS FOR A VISUAL APPROACH RUNWAY 25.

ATC

LEAR 35T, TRAFFIC IS A CESSNA 172 ON A RIGHT DOWNWIND FOR RUNWAY 25.

Lear 35T

Left 290 and we'll be looking for the cessna.

Lear 35T

Lear 35T has the airport in sight, where's that cessna now?

ATC

LEAR 35T, THE CESSNA IS ON A RIGHT BASE ABOUT TO TURN FINAL.

Lear 35T

We still don't see him.

ATC

35T, HE'S OVER THE THRESHOLD NOW.