Definition
A board used in air traffic control facilities to hold and organize flight progress strips, allowing controllers to track the status, routing, and sequencing of aircraft under their control.
Plain English
A board at a controller's position that holds the paper or electronic strips showing each aircraft's flight details, so the controller can keep track of every flight they are working.
Context Anchor
Seen in air traffic control and instrument procedure discussions, especially when explaining how controllers maintain safe separation between aircraft.
Why Pilots Care
It allows controllers to maintain accurate aircraft sequencing and separation when radar coverage is unavailable or limited.
Intuition Check
Do not think of a flight progress board as a cockpit planning board for the pilot. In this context, it is an air traffic control tool used by controllers to track aircraft and clearances.
Example Sentence 1
The tower controller slid the departure strip to the active section of the flight progress board after the aircraft was cleared for takeoff.
Example Sentence 2
Before issuing a clearance, the controller checked the flight progress board to confirm no other traffic conflicted with the route.