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It's a kinder, gentler faa now, Ted. I stopped flying 14 years ago, and went to the other side of the mic. I started at ZLA, 0 to FPL in area C, in 11 months. Starting out, I took lots of clipboards to the back of the head.
We had t shirts with a jailbird chained to a scope..."ZLA...doing 25 to life.".
I had to get back to the Midwest, so I sold my soul and went management. FPL'd at a tower....spent 3 years there, then went to ZID as a manager. I'm an OM now, and miss talking to airplanes, everyday.
I've got 10 years, 10 months, and 23 days left...but who's counting?
Btw...the job gets real, really quick. One of my controllers had a fatal crash last week. I issued the ALNOT 16 minutes after when he should have landed (0230am). They found the charred remains in the woods about 6 hours later. It's frustrating reading the completely inaccurate information reported by the news with these events.
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-mike
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