Coordinate flight control or management activities.

Coordinate flight control or management activities. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 4 occupations and seen in 8 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Manage control systems or activities. in Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 8 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 5 (63%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Transfer control of departing flights to traffic control centers and accept control of arriving flights. · Air Traffic Controllers · importance 4.8 · no direct exposure
• Coordinate with agencies to meet aircrew requirements for billeting, messing, refueling, ground transportation, and transient aircraft maintenance. · Airfield Operations Specialists · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Coordinate flight activities with ground crews and air traffic control and inform crew members of flight and test procedures. · Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Coordinate flight activities with ground crews and air traffic control, and inform crew members of flight and test procedures. · Commercial Pilots · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Perform and supervise airfield management activities, including mobile airfield management functions. · Airfield Operations Specialists · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Coordinate with agencies, such as air traffic control, civil engineers, or command posts, to ensure support of airfield management activities. · Airfield Operations Specialists · importance 4.1 · exposure with tools
• Direct activities of aircraft crews during flights. · Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Coordinate changes to flight itineraries with appropriate Air Traffic Control (ATC) agencies. · Airfield Operations Specialists · importance 3.2 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• Air Traffic Controllers
• Airfield Operations Specialists
• Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
• Commercial Pilots

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-coordinate-flight-control-or-management-activities,
  title  = {Coordinate flight control or management activities.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/detailed-activities/coordinate-flight-control-or-management-activities}
}