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wessidemike

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Things seem to be getting pretty bad on the ATC side of aviation. Take a few minutes and look at the website. Please It's for our safety. How things are looking, it's only going to get worse!!! Link at bottom. And please send a message to our Congressman. It only takes a minute.
  • August 14, Los Angeles: During a period of serious understaffing, two passenger planes come within 100 feet of each other.
  • August 24, Newark: Controllers call on FAA to end violations of landing procedures at Newark airport. FAA takes no action.
  • August 25, Oakland: During a busy time of day a single controller is forced to direct over 50 passenger jets by himself.
  • September 2-5, San Juan, PR: Three power outages in three days leave controllers scrambling to keep airplanes separated.
  • October 3, Washington, DC: Radar failure makes certain planes invisible to air traffic controllers.
  • October 10, Orange County, CA: Air traffic control communications system fail, hampering controllers at the busiest air traffic center in the country.
  • October 10, Boston, MA: Air traffic controllers saw "false targets" on their radar scopes - blips that they knew were not planes in flight.
http://www.natca.org/flyussafe/default.msp
 
hope you guys don't mind if i bump this, i think it's extremely important to aviations future. Please continue to bump it to show your support.Thanks
 
Its going to get worse before it gets better, we are 20% understaffed right now, and we are working our A$$e$ off to keep the skies safe. The FAA doesn't care much for us controllers.
 
Lrjtcaptain said:
Its going to get worse before it gets better, we are 20% understaffed right now, and we are working our A$$e$ off to keep the skies safe. The FAA doesn't care much for us controllers.

Don't forget the impending B scale that Blakey wants to impose on us. You guys *really* aren't going to vote in a contract that will screw the newhires, are ya? If she was smart, she'd put in a lot of really really sweet things for the guys that will be retiring in five years, on the condition that they vote through a contract that will majorly screw over the newhires. Perhaps it's for the better that I'm going to flunk my preemployment exam?
 
I'm just hoping my CTI-grad fiancee will get hired soon. She's going on two years since applying and thankfully shes on a reference list, meaning she can still be hired after those two years are up, or so we've been told. No one seems to know whats going on and hiring is nowhere near what it should be. I sent the little message. Hoping for better days.
 

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