Showing posts with label ATC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ATC. Show all posts
Monday, September 07, 2026

Laboring on Labor Day

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As a career air traffic controller I spent many Labor Days at work. With the current ATC staffing shortages there are many that are working ...
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Saturday, January 31, 2026

Eleven Years

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Today marks eleven years since the official end of my career as an air traffic controller.  As much as I enjoyed the ATC gig, being retired ...
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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Unintended Consequences

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This past week the federal government staffing cuts hit the FAA. While air traffic controllers seem to be exempt from the cuts, the people t...
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Monday, September 04, 2023

Labor Day 2023

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No special holiday plans today and I didn't do anything on the weekend, either. Quiet and simple is the way I like it. I'll water th...
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Monday, January 31, 2022

Seven Years

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It has been seven years since I retired from my work as an air traffic controller. (I actually worked my last shift seven years ago yesterda...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Running on Empty

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Well it is just the first day of the second half of November and I am running out of things to write about for National Blog Posting Month. ...
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Monday, October 04, 2021

Life Maps; a mini book review

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So i just finished reading Life Maps by Jim Fowler and Sam Keen. I'd say it is a book that every adult that is interested in growing (or...
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Thursday, January 17, 2019

ATC and the government shutdown

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For my former co-workers and all of the other 800,000 federal employees that aren't being paid right now the government shutdown isn...
Sunday, October 01, 2017

Happy October!

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It is Sunday morning and I find myself at the dining table of a hotel suite in St Charles MO. We are in this nice suite due a mix up in our...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Road Trip; more people

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After meeting with Bill in the DC area of NoVa, I traveled south until Fredricksburg where I overnighted at a cheap motel. I was able to sle...
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Monday, September 18, 2017

Road Trip, Home

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It's Monday morning and I am sitting in my home, drinking coffee from one of my favorite mugs. I've been perusing Facebook and...
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Wednesday, September 06, 2017

Road Trip, Day 1 (and a bonus story)

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Back when I was still working for a living, most of the conversation as an air traffic controller at SGF was either about air traffic stuff,...
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Sunday, January 08, 2017

Welcome to retirement!

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Yesterday I went to a retirement party for one of my longtime coworkers. When I first arrived at Springfield Tower (SGFT) he had just moved ...
Monday, June 13, 2016

June 13, 2016

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The clock is about to reach the 11pm point on this the 13th of June, 2016. I suppose I could have written a birthday post earlier in the d...
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Thursday, February 18, 2016

A Blast From the Past

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It's a kind of Throwback Thursday type of post. I'm not sure why, but for some reason I've been thinking about air traffic cont...
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Thursday, November 05, 2015

Thursdays are for Thanksgiving

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Some time ago I started a post label of Thursdays are for Thanksgiving . As with most things in my life, I have a way of getting distracted ...
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

ATC Retirements

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There have been many recent articles and news stories on the critical staffing levels of air traffic controllers. The percentage of eligible...
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Thursday, October 01, 2015

Hmmm...Retirement plus Part-time work?

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For some time now, the FAA has been transitioning away from government employees for many staff jobs (like training) and hiring training per...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Goodbyes...again.

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Last Friday was our long awaited retirement party. I have to say that I had a pretty good time and enjoyed seeing people from the distant ...
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Friday, June 05, 2015

Remembering Working for a Living

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It's rare that I think about my working past. There have been events that remind me of some of the people that I once worked with, but n...
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