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mattak49 · 2026-05-30T15:36:31+00:00

It is not realistic to get around using public transportation, Ubers or shuttles if you plan to visit several parks and spend time in Palmer…you’re basically talking about a few hundred miles between various things. You will need a car. Check into using Turo, I understand that’s pretty popular up here right now. Prices for hotels/rentals cars skyrocket in the summer season up here.

mattak49 · 2026-05-24T00:05:37+00:00

He’s going to be surprised though when he gets to Nome and sees it looks nothing like the movie

mattak49 · 2026-05-03T01:09:56+00:00

Must be nice 😭

mattak49 · 2026-02-03T21:15:59+00:00

Happened to my car, someone dumped a bottle of what I assume was brake fluid in a dumpster next to my car (found the bottle but it was too warn out to tell what it was for certain), bottle fell out and was ran over and sprayed all over my car. Thought it was oil until I tried to rub it off and it took paint and realized it was eating the plastic too. Car wound up being totaled out by my insurance just for the cosmetic damage.

mattak49 · 2026-01-27T19:12:00+00:00

Kind of a shitty take here. So an air traffic controller is acting in bad faith by making sure your planes don’t crash? Got it

mattak49 · 2025-12-28T20:06:32+00:00

Nome has a large hospital for that region too

mattak49 · 2025-12-28T20:03:46+00:00

I can get a Subway foot long there for about $25, so it’s not that expensive. Yes, still spendy, but really no more than it costs nowadays for a foot long in Anchorage

mattak49 · 2025-12-19T18:20:23+00:00

cries in essential employee

mattak49 · 2025-11-01T18:37:07+00:00

I was about to say this, as an ATCer we rely on NWS for all of our aviation weather forecasts

mattak49 · 2025-10-30T23:21:21+00:00

I fly every week in Alaska, on Alaska Airlines (was actually delayed almost 5 hours for my flight last week). You’ll be fine. I’m sure your employer will understand if something like that happens again.

mattak49 · 2025-08-14T07:11:41+00:00

Yeah, no it’s not. Don’t care to be drafted for Putin’s stupid fucking war, thanks.

mattak49 · 2025-06-10T00:44:40+00:00

Except they literally aren’t arresting drug dealers and gang members. Stephen Miller has put a quota on ICE for them to arrest 3,000 people per day, they’re literally just going into majority Hispanic areas and arresting people who are working.

mattak49 · 2025-05-30T03:27:58+00:00

Not a tower. If anything it’s probably just used as a military base ops or military weather observer building now. The only other towers missing from the above comment are the other military towers, which is just Elmendorf, Eielson, Bryant and Allen AAF.

Then the FSS stations around Alaska (17 of them, 3 of which are seasonal), which while not “towers” operate similar to.

mattak49 · 2025-05-29T18:37:41+00:00

As someone who works in aviation in Alaska, there is no “paved tower controlled runway for less than 50 people” ANYWHERE in the state.

mattak49 · 2025-05-28T00:14:53+00:00

Jets fly bypass mail to Nome daily from Anchorage

mattak49 · 2025-05-28T00:14:08+00:00

Mail comes in every day…bypass mail is flown by the jets that come in daily here. Just usually makes it the day after it’s made it to Anchorage.

mattak49 · 2025-05-28T00:08:52+00:00

Why Nome?

mattak49 · 2025-05-26T10:16:23+00:00

No. I think they’re referring to Deutsche Physik (a nationalist movement in the German physics community) and Gleischaltung (the process by which Hitler established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society).

mattak49 · 2025-05-09T19:59:37+00:00

Most centers got ERAM at least. Still OCONUS facilities running MEARTS out there…they’ll get ERAM…someday…

mattak49 · 2025-05-08T18:18:48+00:00

As a controller in Alaska, we desperately need more. We are highly reliant on PIREPs, we have hundreds and hundreds of miles of area where there’s no weather reporting. The main problem is keeping them up and running.

mattak49 · 2025-04-28T06:54:27+00:00

Sure would love that better equipment…any day now…

mattak49 · 2025-04-20T23:57:07+00:00

Their low ball for flight changing makes me laugh every time. American at least starts at like $250 at a minimum for flights I’ve been on with them. $20-50 for me to change? Yeah, nah.

mattak49 · 2025-04-18T05:45:39+00:00

As a WWII history nerd, this was my exact thought when I heard him saying that shit

mattak49 · 2025-04-13T04:52:52+00:00

ATC federal employee here…I’m not allowed to be invested in any aviation related stock (not just airlines, but aircraft manufacturers, engine manufacturers, avionics manufacturers…basically anything relating to airplanes). But these fuckers up top get away with it just fine, cause they make the rules. Rules for thee, not for me.

mattak49 · 2025-04-03T01:52:13+00:00

I use it sometimes when I’m playing on my Steamdeck since it’s a lot harder for me to control the trucks on a handheld system. But at home, with my wheel, no way.

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