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No. 44 Wing RAAF

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No. 44 Wing
Active1942–44
2000–current
BranchRoyal Australian Air Force
RoleAir traffic control
Part ofSurveillance and Response Group
Garrison/HQRAAF Base Williamtown
Motto(s)Steadfastness

No. 44 Wing is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) wing responsible for providing air traffic control services to the Australian Defence Force. It directly commands two squadrons, which in turn command eleven air traffic control flights located across the country at nine RAAF bases, HMAS Albatross (Naval Air Station) and Oakey Army Aviation Centre. The wing was formed during World War II, in December 1942, and was disbanded in August 1944. It was re-established in its current form in November 2000.

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My name's Flying Officer Rob Oakley. And I'm an air traffic controller in the Air Force. Yeah, I really love the job. I'm very enthusiastic about aviation and flying. I fly recreationally, as a hobby. And it's a great job that gets me in touch with planes, aviation, and all the latest technology. My name's Flying Officer Nelson Liston. And I've been in air traffic control now for three years, really enjoying it. [INAUDIBLE] 336. En route 336. Clear to land. So at the moment, now we're at the Royal Australian Air Force Base, Williamtown, in New South Wales. This is the control tower, upstairs from the approach room. I take care of all the aircraft on the runway and out to 5 nautical miles, up to 1,500 feet. Well, this is the approach room. So what the people behind me are doing are managing aircraft, controlling them, using a radar. A controller's responsible for directing aircraft from when they first taxi to every phase of flight from take off, assign them air space to conduct their training and giving them headings, level instructions, sequence instructions to get them into a nice orderly sequence back to the airport, then control the landing and taxi back to the lines. No, you don't need a uni degree to be an air traffic controller. I joined the Air Force without a degree. And I've subsequently completed one while I've been in the Air Force. But my training was done at the RAAF base at East Sale, at the School of Air Traffic Control. I walked in there nothing about air traffic control and came out 10 months later ready to start work. Military controllers need to be able to do everything a civil controller can do and then apply specialist military knowledge on top of that as well. Military aircraft operate differently to civil aircraft. And we need to understand how those military operations work. And on top of that, we need to be able to take our air traffic control skills that we're applying here, and be prepared to deploy them in support of Defense Force operations overseas. Yeah, we can deploy with the Army as well. So we'll just be setting up on an airfield out in the bush. And we just have our radios. And if lucky, we could have a radar there as well. Yeah, we've had deployments that have been as simple as a guy with a radio in a tent by the side of a field somewhere, right up to running an international airport with a tower and an approach room just like this one. There's different ways we can actually separate aircraft. But up here in the tower, we work on visual separation a lot. So we're always counting on the ground controller and the tower supervisor to help out. So if I'm really busy with a recovery push and a civilian aircraft's coming in from the south and then we need to get visual separation, then I'll just get the ground controller to sight that aircraft so we've got that visual, the visual separation between them. So, yeah, it's a real team effort. Every time the aircraft depart or they recover, the sequence or the situation's never going to be the same. And that's the challenge, I suppose, of the job. I like flying as a hobby. But this job lets me sort of look after dozens of different aircraft, different times. I get to experience aviation operations from a bunch of different perspectives, rather than just being stuck in the one cockpit all the time. So that's sort of big picture job that's very interesting.

History

World War II

No. 44 Wing, known initially as No. 44 RDF Wing, was formed on 14 December 1942 in Adelaide River, 100 kilometres (62 mi) south of Darwin, Northern Territory.[1][2] Coming under the control of North-Western Area Command, the wing was responsible for controlling the radar stations that acted as an early warning system for Japanese air raids.[3][4] The North-Western Area Campaign was, in the words of the official history of the RAAF in the Pacific theatre, "almost entirely an air war, with raid and counter-raid".[3] The wing was commanded by Flight Lieutenant Hannam, and by March 1943 had a staff of 77 officers and other ranks.[1]

On formation, No. 44 Wing controlled six radar stations in the Darwin area. Over the next two years it established seventeen new stations throughout the North-Western Area, relocated ten, and disbanded two others, and also set up twelve homing beacons. It further established supply, maintenance and repair facilities, as well as communications with No. 5 Fighter Sector Headquarters to coordinate air defence in the region. Hannam was mentioned in despatches for his achievements.[1] After the fighting in New Guinea had ceased, the threat of air raids on mainland Australia eased, and No. 44 Wing was disbanded on 22 August 1944.[5] Its radar stations and other facilities were divested to various fighter, radio and maintenance units in the area.[1]

Re-establishment

Members of the No. 44 Wing detachment responsible for air traffic control at Baghdad International Airport celebrate their 100,000th air movement in January 2004

On 27 November 2000, the air traffic control (ATC) elements of No. 41 Wing were split off to become a re-formed No. 44 Wing, with headquarters at RAAF Base Williamtown, New South Wales.[6] Responsible for ATC services to the Australian Defence Force, the new wing controlled eleven detachments throughout the country at RAAF, Royal Australian Navy and Australian Army airfields, as well as Darwin and Townsville international airports.[5]

In August 2008 it was reported that No. 44 Wing had 237 air traffic controllers and was below its target strength and having difficulty retaining controllers. As a result, the RAAF was unable to monitor the movements of all its planes.[7]

On 16 February 2011, No. 452 Squadron and No. 453 Squadron were re-raised as subordinate units of No. 44 Wing. The two squadrons were to command the existing RAAF air traffic control detachments at Australian Defence Force-run airports, freeing No. 44 Wing Headquarters to focus on higher-level tasks.[8] In December 2012 the wing had a strength of 500 personnel,[9] including 280 JBACs.[6] Many of the wing's other personnel are technicians who are responsible for setting up and maintaining the unit's specialised equipment.[9]

In February 2013, No. 44 Wing and two other former radar wings of World War II, Nos. 41 and 42, celebrated their 70th anniversaries at Williamtown, where the Governor of New South Wales, Marie Bashir, was guest of honour. As of then, No. 44 Wing staff were deployed in Afghanistan.[4] Since its re-establishment in 2000, its detachments have also deployed to Sudan, East Timor, Iraq, the Solomon Islands, and Indonesia.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Hall, A Saga of Achievement, pp. 211–212
  2. ^ Black, Lorelle (June 2001). "Service with significance". Air Force News. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  3. ^ a b Odgers, Air War Against Japan, pp. 41–42
  4. ^ a b "Williamtown RAAF 70 years celebration". Newcastle Herald. 8 February 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  5. ^ a b c "Air Traffic Control: No 44 Wing" (PDF). RAAF Radar. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  6. ^ a b Moclair, "In control", p. 46
  7. ^ Stewart, Cameron (26 August 2008). "Air force in bid to stop staff exodus". The Australian. Retrieved 30 August 2008.
  8. ^ "Senator Feeney Celebrates the Reformation of Number 452 and 453 Squadrons at RAAF Base Williamtown". Media release. Senator The Hon. David Feeney MP Parliamentary Secretary for Defence. 16 February 2011. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  9. ^ a b Moclair, "In control", p. 48

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