Watching a computer screen just above a panoramic window of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, air traffic controllers direct planes as they come in to land.
To get to the runways, controllers instruct planes to descend a little, level off, then descending a little more.
Acting Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Huerta likens it to someone walking down a set of stairs.
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