Thursday, April 09, 2009
yo yo...so we finished our lesson plans for our into to terminal radar, monday we start radar training, so its gonna get into high gear. Yesterday we observed the class 3 weeks ahead of us as they started using radars with their instructors helping. it was pretty cool and im excited. Today we played a game where we had to seperate planes on a maze only using 3 altitudes, it passed time and was fun
One thing i REALLY like about the academy hear are the instructors. They are all former controllers, all of them have different work experience, some became supervisors, others stayed in one center, some jumped all over. They all have different stories and all love to answer questions. I always hated in high school and college when your teacher went to school to teach, and then taught. I hated when they had no real world experience to share with us.
Oh, and to answer vincents question better that he asked about using delta, it actually isn't a problem. When calling an air carrier(airline) they each have a special identifier, and then you use the numbers after, such as AAL512(American 512), and Delta is DAL, so a delta flight would look like DAL8924. (why it's not DEL idk)
Also i learned there is def money to be made designing software for the FAA. We learned about some protocol with distributing weather reports today, and i asked if any facilities have an automated process for it, and he said i'll be dissapointed if i expect the FAA to have current technology. It really isn't even all that advanced. Because a report will come in with conditions for certain areas, and someones job is to see if that is within 150 miles if their sector, and if so distribute it. You would think software could automatically determine if its in whatever parameters you wanted and distribute automatically.
On another personalized note, Nico, i think you would love ATC. You'd like the vectoring and such.
One thing i REALLY like about the academy hear are the instructors. They are all former controllers, all of them have different work experience, some became supervisors, others stayed in one center, some jumped all over. They all have different stories and all love to answer questions. I always hated in high school and college when your teacher went to school to teach, and then taught. I hated when they had no real world experience to share with us.
Oh, and to answer vincents question better that he asked about using delta, it actually isn't a problem. When calling an air carrier(airline) they each have a special identifier, and then you use the numbers after, such as AAL512(American 512), and Delta is DAL, so a delta flight would look like DAL8924. (why it's not DEL idk)
Also i learned there is def money to be made designing software for the FAA. We learned about some protocol with distributing weather reports today, and i asked if any facilities have an automated process for it, and he said i'll be dissapointed if i expect the FAA to have current technology. It really isn't even all that advanced. Because a report will come in with conditions for certain areas, and someones job is to see if that is within 150 miles if their sector, and if so distribute it. You would think software could automatically determine if its in whatever parameters you wanted and distribute automatically.
On another personalized note, Nico, i think you would love ATC. You'd like the vectoring and such.
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