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FAA suspends 2 for movie watching while on duty
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal aviation officials say another air traffic controller has been suspended, this time for watching a movie when he was supposed to be monitoring aircraft. The Federal Aviation . . . (flightaware.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I have always utmost respect for ATC controllers, but I keep finding it harder and harder to defend these guys.
Sad part is that it is something that has probably been there a good while and comes to light with a high profile incident like happened at Reagan a few weeks ago, and now there is the typical knee jerk reaction from EVERYBODY that it's a big problem. The real problem is that all this publicity will prevent any meaningful progress on the actual problems that lead to these things.
I am sure these incidents will hasten the implementation of NEXGEN. Right now the biggest issue slowing the air traffic system is the manual voice communication between pilots and controller.
Gerry: you are probably correct about the hastening, but I thought the NEXGEN was primarily enroute or area control and not tower com.Can you enlighten some?
Wayne, you seem to have brought up the Reagan incident quite a bit lately. Might you have more to tell?
While not condoning the actions of the controllers, I do believe the media can grossly distort the common public from the real issues at hand and resolution to the matters. They simply like to sensationalize current events to get attention.
While not condoning the actions of the controllers, I do believe the media can grossly distort the common public from the real issues at hand and resolution to the matters. They simply like to sensationalize current events to get attention.
No Michael, not anymore to tell. It's just that a few weeks before that the incident down in Knoxville TN or in Lubbock TX didn't even make a ripple in things yet when you have something happen like this in our Nation's capitol, it's a big old bugaboo and the traveling public is going down in flames. I have seen some of our FW members jump on the same bandwagon so what do you do. Every industry has it's dirty laundry. In most cases though, they don't put it out there for the world to see.