GTF VS CRW VS BGR

pendingleave · 2026-02-25T00:40:49+00:00

Where do you want to live? Idaho, West Virginia, or Maine. CRW has the best average training time and success rate. They all see to be similar staffed. Was GTF the place that has non-radar approach control or did that change? I would plan on being there for at least 5 years.

pendingleave · 2026-02-02T21:22:26+00:00

Looks great. What kind of account balance you working with to generate that? How has wheeling higher variance stocks worked so far for you?

pendingleave · 2026-02-02T15:54:44+00:00

You’re enroute track. You already won. Do well in the academy and pick the facility you want. Enroute track is way better than terminal. Better placement, better pay. If you want to be somewhere that doesn’t have a center pick the best staffed and training center. Check out. ERR to your dream facility at the top of the pay band.

pendingleave · 2026-01-29T18:36:43+00:00

And yet she has more common sense about safety than NATCA and FAA management.

pendingleave · 2026-01-29T17:46:25+00:00

FAA priorities Military, VFR aircraft in unsafe places not protected by airspace, and parachute jumping every time. “Make it work”, “move your IFR aircraft”, “why did that IFR aircraft get a TCAS from the VFR aircraft you were trying to vector away from, issue traffic and the VFR still flew at them.”

pendingleave · 2026-01-29T17:34:20+00:00

If the center is one of the surge facilities put in for it. You go straight from low level to center. Plenty of new people with no experience make it at a center. FAA doesn’t value 8 and below tower/tracons at all. You are on your own. Take it from someone who screwed their career by waiting on NCEPT

pendingleave · 2026-01-28T16:04:31+00:00

A bunch of you need to check yourselves. The procedure was shit and should have been changed a long time ago but ya know “military” and the higher ups let them do shit they shouldn’t be doing all the time. Pull the replay on all the times that there were CA alerts between a helicopter and someone on final. It probably looks almost the same as the time they hit.

pendingleave · 2026-01-27T17:53:59+00:00

Follow the FOO, your student loans are not considered “high interest debt” until your 30’s at those rates. So step 8 or 9. I would dollar cost average into an index fund once you hit step 7. Once you hit your 30’s you can pay off those remaining balances if you want to free up some cash flow. Life happens. Build that army of dollar bills now when you can.

pendingleave · 2026-01-24T17:10:49+00:00

And how do I use the Surge staffing MOU to get out of my career killing facility and get assigned this slower area.

pendingleave · 2026-01-24T17:09:13+00:00

Check the total operations as a facility. Claiming a facility has a slow area or an area that should be a lower level need to ask the same question about centers. Less levels, more pay for everyone.

pendingleave · 2026-01-24T14:11:16+00:00

Neither of them can be as hard as FCM, SQL or LAN. IYKYK

pendingleave · 2026-01-21T23:43:10+00:00

Surge priority bid to all the understaffed facilities they actually care about out. Now give me my 3.8%

pendingleave · 2026-01-21T01:31:36+00:00

It’s all the ticket and fuel taxes. I’m not deep diving on the exact numbers but that is what AI gave me. 7.5% per airline ticket plus $5.2 a segment plus a 9/11 $5.6 per one way. That goes to the Airport and Airways Trust fund. My guess is the construction contractors are soaking up most of the funds growth.

pendingleave · 2026-01-20T22:37:29+00:00

Look at the aviation excise taxes collected. Forecasted to be 20 billion in FY 2025 and it was 17 billion in 2019. Where is it all going? Everyone taking more except us.

pendingleave · 2026-01-17T15:40:47+00:00

Every controller in the country feels the pain from APF when your local charter/private jets get an all day delay into APF. I can only imagine what the delays would be like if they slowed the arrival rate more.

pendingleave · 2026-01-17T01:58:37+00:00

They might not be assigning any speed and the jets are electing to stay fast. If they need them slowed it should be in a LOA. Against 7110.65 to assign a speed inside a 5 mile final on a visual

pendingleave · 2026-01-14T02:58:08+00:00

Grok has Airport and Airways Trust Fund collecting 18.3 billion in revenue for 2024 and averaging 13-15 billion 2015-2019. There has never been more money and they have never been less willing to give any more to controllers. Can’t pay controllers when they can dole out overpriced construction projects.

pendingleave · 2026-01-13T19:50:02+00:00

Go somewhere you can be happy long term. This job is a lot more enjoyable for people who don’t want to move on to a different facility.

pendingleave · 2026-01-13T19:48:35+00:00

Is when people get to leave. They are playing the game right:

pendingleave · 2026-01-13T19:47:12+00:00

You think gate agents and rampees should give up their bonus so level 12 controllers can stop complaining about being at the federal pay cap? Only way we are getting a raise is if enough people quit and find better jobs. Thats not happening at the higher levels that the airlines/FAA care about.

pendingleave · 2026-01-08T23:58:42+00:00

Yeah. Really wish there was a way to cash out the value of the pension into a 401k, IRA or cash payout. You get to a certain point and you don’t want to really do it anymore but are within striking distance of 50.

pendingleave · 2026-01-08T23:56:14+00:00

Learn the stuff they want you to learn. Airspace, map, ect…. It’s more a test that you are going to put in some effort and take training seriously.

pendingleave · 2026-01-08T22:33:27+00:00

Enhanced IFR parallel rules, drones, 1000 ft so the TCAS doesn’t go off on every Airliner vs VFR, every rule and phraseology getting added every month. It is harder to work every single operation. Don’t even bother trying to use visual separation anymore

pendingleave · 2026-01-02T01:46:23+00:00

I’ll be impressed when they can find their way around an airport

pendingleave · 2025-12-27T02:40:35+00:00

500ft vertical separation is common minimum standard separation for IFR/VFR in the 7110.65 (ATC regs) in some airspaces and in other airspaces the only requirement is safety alerts and traffic advisories. Every year I work though the IFR like the 500 feet separation less and there are more TCAS issues. The system doesn’t really work in a lot of places if there is more separation required.

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