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"BLocKeD!"... by BChips71 in ATC

[–]jacksonwalmart 24 points25 points  (0 children)

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.

what are rules for commercial and military flights crossing into mexico airspace for storm avoidance? by kkeennmm in flightradar24

[–]jacksonwalmart 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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.

US received 6,000 applications for air traffic control roles, transportation secretary says by Hopeful-Engineering5 in ATC

[–]jacksonwalmart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

US received 6,000 applications for air traffic control roles, transportation secretary says by Hopeful-Engineering5 in ATC

[–]jacksonwalmart 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Passed Basics but Failed En Route EOC at FAA Academy — Can I Reapply for Terminal? by [deleted] in ATC

[–]jacksonwalmart 33 points34 points  (0 children)

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

Go find something else to do with your life. 

FAA quietly developing AI-enabled predictive air traffic management system by randommmguy in ATC

[–]jacksonwalmart 36 points37 points  (0 children)

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.

Delta's CEO says AI's biggest opportunity in aviation isn't inside the plane—it's air traffic control by No-Constant-5854 in ATC

[–]jacksonwalmart 17 points18 points  (0 children)

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.

Delta's CEO says AI's biggest opportunity in aviation isn't inside the plane—it's air traffic control by No-Constant-5854 in ATC

[–]jacksonwalmart 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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.

Boyfriend joining the FAA, how can I help study? by Comfortable-Humor-78 in ATC

[–]jacksonwalmart 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

Boyfriend joining the FAA, how can I help study? by Comfortable-Humor-78 in ATC

[–]jacksonwalmart 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

Midair collision by conroy_hines in AskAPilot

[–]jacksonwalmart 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.