Where an airspace manager can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an airspace manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Airspace managers control activities aimed at developing the European airspace into a continuum that is flexible and reactive to changes of users’ needs in airspace. They aim to optimise the network capacity and improve the performance.
Also known as manager of airspace, airspace management officer, air traffic and airspace manager, airspace and air traffic manager.
Managers 21 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: air traffic controller, 40%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
An airspace manager needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- apply the concept of Flexible Use of Airspace communication, collaboration and creativity
- manage aspects of airspace management management skills
- monitor airspace planning information skills
- air traffic management business, administration and law
- celestial navigation natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- carry out navigational calculations information skills
- operate radar equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
- air traffic control operations services
- interpret visual literacy information skills
- have spatial awareness information skills
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an airspace manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- air traffic controller 64% covered · difficulty 40.1
- aircraft pilot 61% covered · difficulty 43
- air traffic instructor 45% covered · difficulty 55.7
- air traffic safety technician 34% covered · difficulty 64.2
- air traffic manager 30% covered · difficulty 67.1
- aircraft dispatcher 23% covered · difficulty 73.4
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Airspace manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an airspace manager’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.