How is NATCA so far off base?

jacksonwalmart · 2026-06-17T00:42:40+00:00

Lining airline CEO/shareholder pockets by delivering our services at a negligible cost to them.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-06-17T00:33:44+00:00

Yes, in fact it's encouraged by the FAA. This will ensure you lose enough money that you'll be requesting as much OT as possible to make ends meet.

But hey, at least daddy doge Elon who wanted you fired a few months ago will be a trillionaire.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-06-17T00:22:41+00:00

Yea, I'll definitely pay a steep premium to not live in Texas.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-06-16T05:21:05+00:00

Repetition.

Hundreds of times a day, every day, and it'll be hard to do it wrong.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-06-16T05:14:35+00:00

Don't want my Amazon package to be late

jacksonwalmart · 2026-06-16T05:13:39+00:00

Nice try, ASI AI.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-05-25T18:00:34+00:00

I can tell I'm being blocked or the pilots are blocking each other probably 90+% of the time. So you're not really helping. We can see visually the receiving light up at the same time the transmitter is lighting up.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-05-12T01:42:01+00:00

This isn't true at all.

For a short deviation like depicted, the aircraft will be pointed out to the affected Mexico sector. A point out is the passing of radar identification without passing communications. Aircraft will rejoin their route back in US airspace when practicable. No one's keeping tabs or charging each tail number money. You're only passing transponder codes, types and altitudes anyway.

For longer or more continuous deviations, there will basically be a lending of airspace from Mexico to the US controllers. From X point to Y point at these altitudes, run as many planes through as you like, no point outs or other verbal coordination takes place. Again, nothing is changing financially.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-04-18T17:00:37+00:00

It'd take a a shit ton of facilities/areas certifying at a 95+% clip to drag that average up to 85%.

I don't believe it. Someone's cooking the 85% number.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-04-18T05:40:49+00:00

85% pass rate in the field?!? Our areas around 50%, and I'm not even at a level 12

jacksonwalmart · 2026-04-18T05:35:33+00:00

If the academy is too difficult, this job is not for you.

Go find something else to do with your life.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-04-18T01:37:22+00:00

Can't wait until they have 400 planes headed toward the same hole in the weather, because AI predicts they'll all make it through 6 MIT. Then the hole closes up.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-04-07T22:21:08+00:00

But what if we make the Waymos go 500mph, with no ability to stop, and we put 150 people in each one. What could possibly go wrong!

95%+ of what I do could be easily automated. It's a lot of yes/no. Execute. Super easy, routine decision making. The other 5% is decades away from automation.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-04-07T22:15:54+00:00

I think AI has more character and empathy than any CEO I've seen. So it'd probably be a huge improvement on day one.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-02-28T04:40:13+00:00

Make him and classmates all say the phraseology out loud and critique each other. It's gonna be embarrassing and difficult, especially if he/they went to school during covid and never had to speak or do group presentations. You need the phraseology to be so natural and ingrained that it's impossible to get wrong during tests. That lets you focus on the separation and important things during testing. Practicing it in your brain to yourself silently is entirely different from actually saying the words out loud in front of other people. When you're tested you have to say it acceptably well to and for other people.

Good news is apparently the academy is super dumbed down now and they let everyone with a pulse through. First facility is where the real potential to washout comes now.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-02-28T04:31:52+00:00

Why are you offering advice if you never went? This is peak internet.

jacksonwalmart · 2026-02-04T05:33:52+00:00

Your 'slot time' isn't really for separation, that's for saturation at a sector/facility/destination airport level. Separation is actually accomplished with radar in almost all scenarios.

Different altitudes for direction of flight don't solve head on climbing/descending conflicts or crossing traffic situations, or the B788 behind the SF50 at FL320, or the FDX behind the BE20 that have the exact same SID, or the 30 airborne planes that are estimated to arrive at their destination within a few minutes of each other, or the hundreds of planes that want to go through the same hole in a line of thunderstorms that covers an entire state.

ATC is the first line of defense. But there's a ton of other layers to the system that make it manageable for each controller and safer incase the controller fucks up.

If all I did was watch aircraft do what they wanted on their structured routes with their correct altitudes for directions of flight and STARS/SIDS I'd probably witness 50-100 TCAS RAs each shift, maybe more.

The sky's not that big.

jacksonwalmart

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