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Rate My Controller!
I am sitting in my office, recording grades. Dr. Cass Howell comes walking by the open door and stops. We start talking about life. Get a couple of old naval aviators together and of course, the talk always turns to … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying, Life in General, Personal
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Tagged airplanes, airspeed, altitude, Cessnas, controllers, discipline, Florida, flying, friends, judgment, memories, pilots, professional pilots, ratemycontroller.com, taildraggers, Tampa
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OK, My Turn
It’s my turn now, to talk about the napping controllers. This is mainly for the benefit of the non-flying public; most of us who fly realize pilots and passengers face little danger in the case of sleeping controllers at 1 … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flying, Life in General, Personal
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Tagged Air Traffic Controllers, airplanes, Cessnas, controllers, discipline, Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), flight training, flying, high-density traffic operations, inexperienced pilots, instrument flying, J. Mac McClellan, judgment, learning to fly, napping controllers, natural circadian rhythm, newspapers, non-flying public, OK My Turn, pilots, pilots in command, professional pilots, publicizing a problem that is not really a problem, punitive action, sleeping controllers, student pilots, taildraggers, training aircraft, wimps, “Are We Pilots Or Wimps?”
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You Are Cleared to Blah, Blah, Blah
There is something I don’t understand about the new pilots who are learning to fly in these modern times. Many are all for flying, but they must have the radio to do it. And GPS. They can’t go anywhere without … Continue reading →
Posted in Aviation, Flight Instructing, Flying
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Tagged air traffic controller, ATC, Blah, clear of other traffic, controllers, delight in flying, Flight instructors, flying, focus on the basics, learning to fly, near misses, reliance on technology and the system, self-reliance, student pilots, technologies, training, Why do you fly?, You Are Cleared to Blah, “freedom” of flying
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