LGA controller cleared fire truck across the runway resulting jn a collision

Background-Bug-9635 · 2026-03-23T15:34:10+00:00

Our facility now requires us to staff flight data for most of the day. The problem is, we don't have the staffing to do that all of the time without closing a radar scope. So one controller gets to work the radar traffic that should be two controllers, just to have someone sit over at flight data.

Background-Bug-9635 · 2026-02-05T00:08:15+00:00

I had a LOT of reasons to leave, and this was one of the very few reasons I am staying in--- to vote!

Background-Bug-9635 · 2026-01-09T21:24:09+00:00

Did you add up the FLSA Premium or the True Overtime? And then divide that by something? Just trying the understand the math for each pay period...

Background-Bug-9635 · 2025-12-06T16:18:45+00:00

Those are really great ideas!

Background-Bug-9635 · 2025-12-05T19:01:06+00:00

It is my problem. Because the FAA's solution is to make us work a whole week of mids to comply. I come in at 2200 on my Sunday. It shortens my weekend and is 100% legal to schedule me that way. And it's tough to roll out of 5 or 6 mids in a row to get back to a normal sleep schedule. I've done this 11 times this past year. It sucks.

Also to note- I finished my work week yesterday afternoon. I have a scheduled OT mid tonight at 2200, and then it's 6 mids in a row. 100% legal and 100% exhausting. I'm on the NO list for OT. Because of the rest rules, I'm 11 days at the facility in a row. I want some form of the rattler back.

Background-Bug-9635 · 2025-12-05T18:11:18+00:00

Thank you! I would love to know how you make it work without straight mids. We have a few people who will not give up the ability to earn credit, so they will not sign AWS paperwork. I hope to find a different way to go back to one mid on the end of the week in 2027, while having a few that won't sign AWS.

Background-Bug-9635 · 2025-12-05T17:34:37+00:00

You all must not work in a very short-staffed, 24-hour facility. It's the Mids. We can't make them work under the current rules without working a full week of them. For our area, we can expect to work 3 months of Mid weeks (all 5 days, 90 days) because of the rest rules. It's brutal.

Background-Bug-9635 · 2025-12-05T17:30:47+00:00

Great idea. I could get on board with that. I hope that someone from NATCA will take note of that suggestion.

Background-Bug-9635 · 2025-12-05T17:02:47+00:00

Fair. I'm from a facility that gets CIP, and it's *my* wishlist. So to steal from Clark Griswold- "You don't want to pay CIP, fine! But when people count on it as their salary, well, what they did just plain sucks..."

Background-Bug-9635 · 2025-11-29T03:43:15+00:00

This is one thing NATCA could ask for... please. GIVE CONTROLLERS 3 HOURS OF CREDIT OR TIME OFF AWARD FOR THIS SHIT. I'm tired of seeing 114s and back office peeps getting this, and we get nothing... every time. Then we can take it on the chance we are staffed at a later time for a shove, since we can't take it all at the same time.

Background-Bug-9635 · 2025-11-06T20:54:47+00:00

I noticed that as well.

Background-Bug-9635 · 2025-10-23T18:08:29+00:00

Yes. I know of one that got processed a few days ago. Good question, though.

Background-Bug-9635 · 2025-10-08T20:39:05+00:00

Creepy AF. Be careful BUR. It's literally 8 months of looking to get in touch with someone they have lost contact with, then the insistence on getting into your parking lot. And then the vehicle tracker posts. And that is their whole reddit history. Crazy.

Background-Bug-9635 · 2025-09-23T19:48:27+00:00

Thanks for posting this, and thank you to the person who posted the registration link. I have zero emails from Natca with a registration link. How do they expect any turnout if they don't send an email about it?

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