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When I was a controller in Germany, the German guard police would absolutely lose their poo poo. People would gently caress with them too, playing soundboard poo poo and funny sound effects. Hearing an exasperated guard policeman screaming on the frequency in a thick German accent is great fun.
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Best of luck to all you goons who have applied, this is truly the best job in the world.
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Feb 24, 2014 06:07
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I'm not sure what they were looking for, but the results have been crazy.
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Feb 28, 2014 02:21
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It genuinely seems like there was something wrong with whatever automated process they used to get a go/no go from the biographical questionnaire.
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Feb 28, 2014 05:14
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MrYenko posted:There's a woman at the academy that greets you on your first day and administers some tests. She has a lot of letters and abbreviations after her name, is probably borderline on some kind of personality test, maybe the one she administers, and is ABSOLUTELY convinced that her statistical analysis can produce better controllers. I remember her and her speech about how everything we do in the agency will be tracked and checked against her precious test results.
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Mar 1, 2014 03:11
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When I was a controller in the Air Force working at Nellis, the tower was infested with giant camel spiders. Fuckers would randomly drop down on you.
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Mar 4, 2014 04:59
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Got CPC today. 
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Mar 4, 2014 21:48
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The Ferret King posted:Excellent work, congratulations. When's the party? It actually coincides really well with some leave coming up this weekend. Just gotta buy chow for the facility and hit up the bar. I spent 6 months in training limbo due to the shutdown and academy backlog, I spent a few weeks at RTF and then got sent back to my facility for a month before going back to finish. Pretty frustrating, but it's nice to be done now.
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Mar 4, 2014 22:03
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FrozenVent posted:How do airshows work, you just cordon off a block of airspace and the participants are free to do whatever in there? Air shows are run by an "air boss", who doesn't really control but remains in contact with air show participants and cues the next participants when it's time to go.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:01
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Anyone else annoyed by the new "climb via SID" phraseology?
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Apr 14, 2014 06:31
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SeaborneClink posted:<not cpc> I was previously under the impression that a pilot on a SID was expected to comply with all published restrictions when they're on said SID. But, I'm a relatively new CPC without a whole lot of radar experience.
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Apr 14, 2014 08:07
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Tommy 2.0 posted:That is why you try to get a trainee. Not worth it, I'll take my dark cave anytime
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Apr 14, 2014 19:56
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I had a C-17 that couldn't get into the local Air Force base because the weather was below mins he needed to shoot the approach. He asked to hold, and I asked him if he was familiar with one of our holding fixes known as WAKOV. The pilot replied "Yeah, we're *very* familiar with WAKOV" "Proceed direct WAKOV and hold"
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Apr 24, 2014 04:20
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I hope the western service area HR management division had a lot of paper in their fax machine today. Sent 4 different ERRs. Anyone work in Arizona?
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Apr 26, 2014 08:16
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We still have opposite direction, but word is we are about to have to start logging and reviewing every single one.
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Aug 15, 2014 21:58
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two_beer_bishes posted:Passed the academy today, what a pain in the dick Good job. A little advice for live training: don't say much at all to your trainer. Don't make excuses when you make mistakes, just keep your mouth shut and press on. Every trainer is going to have some peculiarities they want you to do, just do what they say and keep track of who likes what. After you get rated you can develop your own style.
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Tommy 2.0 posted:I've seen Nellis radar controllers used to working red flag come up to the tower and turn ghost white. It's pretty hilarious. Sup, ex-Nellis buddy? 
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Hey man vectoring is too close to actually doing work, can you guys just space then out for me so I don't have to do anything?
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Tommy 2.0 posted:How did I miss this? I wasn't stationed there, but when I was at Kadena, it seemed like half the tower was ex-Nellis tower/radar guys, and the other half were Osan/Kunsan. It was HILARIOUS watching the Osan/Kunsan guys show up cockier than balls and get their asses completely handed to them the first time they worked a heavy. When were you there? 2009-2012
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Tommy 2.0 posted:Sorry about Hulett. Searcy was my first trainee, ever. I was completely green when I trained him so I lucked out, massively, getting him as my first trainee. I was in tech school with the Drewry's. I was in the tower. Searcy came up to get dual-rated, I remember him being pretty sharp. Worked with Dave D. too.
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Congrats! Best of luck during the hiring process. It can be super frustrating, but it's worth it.
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Feb 15, 2017 14:37
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JohnClark posted:Aye, and like I said, this is just me personally. But speaking for myself, I'd always rather have the basics (who where what) than not. Same here. I'd much rather have a quick call with aircraft type, ATIS, altitude, and simple request.
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PT6A posted:Two questions, though: on approach I got "cleared to descent" with no restriction. I clarified, but in the future should I take that to mean I can descend as required for a straight in approach? Second: on ground, I was given clearance to taxi to an intersecting, inactive runway and pull off to allow opposite direction traffic to pass. I pulled left on the runway, but I get the feeling I should have gone right. No direction was specified; was that my fault, for not being aware of where other traffic was taxiing (which I suppose it was, in any case), should the controller have given me an instruction, or should I have asked for clarification? If you're VFR you can descend as required for whatever pattern entry you're given. For your taxi question, there's nothing written about it in the regs as far as I'm aware so you can pick which side you want to go to. If the controller needs something specific they'll tell you.
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Jun 9, 2017 22:49
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TangoFox posted:Changes to the NCEPT and PPT are coming today. Some pretty major changes to training times, which will change percentages significantly in some cases. Expect an announcement at 3pm eastern from the national office. I'm currently about to try and ERR so this will be of interest to me. What's the best place to find the results? NATCA website?
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JohnClark posted:The last place I worked not only had strips, we had drop tubes and ARTS 2E Same
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Re: RVP chat. I was getting boned by my ATM over a hardship transfer and my local rep was hemming and hawing and not really going to bat for me. I talked to the RVP and my poo poo was fixed in less than a month. YMMV
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Jul 17, 2017 01:06
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Anyone know if aircraft are able to shoot IFR approaches after sunset to a runway without PAPIs?
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Nov 11, 2017 01:45
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Yeah the tower called me about this earlier saying they had to change runways because the runway in use didn’t have PAPIs. I’d never heard of that before and couldn’t find anything in the .65. We hashed it out on the phone later and it turns out they were mistaken.
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Nov 11, 2017 03:08
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No harm in blasting ERRs everywhere and then following up with phone calls.
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Nov 14, 2017 00:49
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I like a quick callsign, type, destination so I can at leave give the NAS code to you and get the radar ID and altitude report after I see the squawk pop up. There’s nothing worse than it being fairly slow and hearing “approach, N123BS” and that’s it.
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I would keep trucking along and not say anything about your age if I were you. Every ATC position is listed as a "temporary position" but it's not really. There is just a one year probationary period.
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PT6A posted:Does anyone have resources or links to example audio recordings concerning filing IFR and/or obtaining an IFR clearance airborne? With visibility hovering around VFR minima here due to smoke recently, I feel like it'd be a good idea to know, and we never actually did it during my instrument rating training. I'd prefer not to have an angry centre controller yelling at me if/when I attempt it for the first time. If the weather is bad and you just want to pick up IFR to a nearby airport it's pretty easy. Just say you're requesting an IFR clearance to wherever, and the controller will most likely clear you to XXX airport "via radar vectors" and assign an altitude and a new squawk code. That's all there is to it if it's a local airport in their airspace.
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I'll become a sup as soon as I can do so in pajamas
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I don’t think we’ll feel the need to delay prisoner transport aircraft
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fknlo posted:Anyone here work at ZSE? I seem to remember someone that works somewhere in that area at least. I work at U90. Despite being a level 8 it's a pretty complex airspace with a very weird and challenging mix of traffic.
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Zochness posted:Anyone have experience with the hardship process? I will be submitting mine in the next few days after we found out my mom has stage IV pancreatic cancer earlier this month. Hoping I can get moved back down to the DFW area before things get too bad. I hope I qualify at all but it would be nice to know a general timeline for transfer if it is approved so I know what to expect. This whole situation sucks. Sorry about your mom. When my hardship got approved I was gone within a month.
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Anyone work at Atlanta TRACON? How is it?
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Anyone at C90?
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Looks like I’ll be transferring to C90 sometime in august 
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MrYenko posted:Congrats! I assume you want to go there? There is a bit of movement for terminal. We had two guys scooped up in this last NCEPT. The C90 bid is a year long bid with move money though, so it’s not in the same pile
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