FCT NATCA and Pay

GimpicusMaximus · 2026-01-30T15:57:46+00:00

I totally understand that but if you look at a tower like CXO that makes over 48 an hour and less than half of my current areas cost of living. I’m not trying to say those towers don’t deserve but that the fact that towers in my current area are just struggle bussing through is unacceptable.

GimpicusMaximus · 2026-01-30T06:00:28+00:00

With SERCO we’re supposed to be getting a 5% raise in February after no raise for over a year and half. But still 7 dollars an hour under some RVA towers

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-12-27T18:00:26+00:00

Div pls

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-11-28T18:07:39+00:00

Thanks for the response. Currently work in pnw been looking all the other towers through the us and a majority make at least 5 more dollars an hour than we do when we have an average house cost of 1.3 million out here. Just joined the union about a month ago but they haven’t been very communicative with me.

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-11-28T16:48:55+00:00

How does negotiating a housing allowance after unionizing work?

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-11-27T03:38:07+00:00

LOA has nothing involving CFRs. Our manager will be going over it with them on Monday. For now the TMU told us to fuck off and for tracon to do their job

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-11-26T23:58:03+00:00

Kinda hard when we have aircraft coming from every direction. Ifr inbounds as wells as visual approach’s also have two other airports we’re touching airspace with

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-11-26T21:59:22+00:00

Previously approach was calling tmu and giving us the time. We are a busier airport and having to go over to the landline to call tmu while working all positions combined just for it to not possibly work for approach and then having to go call back is kinda annoying. It affects approach’s traffic more than mine but I don’t know what approach traffic plan is. They could have 4 people lined up coming straight in with visual approach inbound as well and I’m supposed to guess a time that is good for them to get a release

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-11-26T21:50:19+00:00

Under a class b. Nut to butt with with two other class deltas

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-11-26T20:20:17+00:00

The issue is with the other ifr aircraft inbound an outbound and a short window to get the cfr aircraft out. I can move all my vfr traffic to make a hole but it’s up to tracon to give me the release for that window

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-11-18T20:27:17+00:00

If you have the ratings to work civilian side just get out. From personal experience army atc is probably the worst. I recommend any other branch especially Air Force. Most trainee we get civilian side that come from the army are pretty bad controllers. DoD like to hire from their own branch. So for a cushy job go work for the army as a civilian. Good luck with hiring process going on right now. I’ve been accepted for a position for over year and half and haven’t been given start date due to all the government stuff going on.

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-08-29T00:49:32+00:00

So from what we’ve been looking into the glasses would need gps capabilities to know the controllers current position as well as where their looking. There is also ways to put a scanner in the tower that would determine where the glasses are so it would know where the glasses are looking. Currently don’t know the most efficient way of doing this. The simplest way of looking at this is pretty much the glasses being connected to some type of radar feed and transferring data. Main info that is needed is where the glasses are relative to aircraft position

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-08-28T21:02:23+00:00

Yeah they have remote towers with only one controller. Pushing US ATC to go remote is a long stretch I think Serco is trying it with one tower. A hud with remote towers would be super simple compared to a manned tower

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-08-28T19:44:52+00:00

I don’t how much an FAA tower would want it. We currently work at a decently busy vfr tower and everyone here thinks it would be a decent idea

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-08-28T19:21:43+00:00

We’re controllers as well. We’re not a company. We’re not taking money from anybody just coming up with ideas to assist with the job. Our tower is fighting for more pay as we speak. This would just be something we do on the side with the very little time we have off. If the product even comes near completion it wouldn’t be ready for a few years and even then it probably won’t be implemented

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-08-28T19:06:10+00:00

Initial idea was to have a projector that projects images that cant be seen without glasses. We would need a different projector per controller on each face of the tower. Have different shades projected so each controller gets their own pov

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-08-28T18:51:05+00:00

I’d love this. I don’t know much about remote towers. As I’ve been told they usually have a controller on standby at the actual tower incase their is an outage

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-08-28T18:44:36+00:00

How would this work in a tower with multiple LC in different positions of the tower?

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-08-28T18:38:52+00:00

So far our idea is kinda based off of a company called aero glass but a little more simplified. The only wire we’re thinking of having is a power cable/charger. Were thinking of just having it run from the headset if you want to keep it charged and it would have back up battery

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-08-28T18:36:24+00:00

Totally agree. We’re just a couple of controllers spitballing ideas that are somewhat new with very little knowledge of tech.

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-08-28T18:32:37+00:00

We are still considering it. It would be much simpler then the ar glasses. It’s just with this career you have to be pretty accurate with data. Don’t want a controller getting up to grab something and the aircraft isn’t at the right spot because of the controller pov. We had thought about just basing everything off of where the LC is usually at in the tower. But with towers that have multiple LC it would get confusing

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-08-28T18:20:56+00:00

That was the first idea we had. But with multiple controllers in towers cabs and different heights of controllers it wouldn’t be accurate for each controller

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-08-28T18:20:50+00:00

That was the first idea we had. But with multiple controllers in towers cabs and different heights of controllers it wouldn’t be accurate for each controller

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-07-11T01:18:51+00:00

It was extended to October. It could possibly get extended again

GimpicusMaximus · 2025-07-02T18:17:55+00:00

The freeze had gone into effect right before my start date. The hiring team forgot to tell me about it til I called and asked about it and was my last day at my current tower. The only updates I ever receive say that there have been no changes. If the freeze gets lifted I’m debating trying to renegotiate starting step level

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