Wednesday, June 24, 2009
yo yo...im blogging from work on break. I started on the Floor(control room) yesterday. Its much more fun being in the control room. Right now im in the process of being checked out on the flight data position, should be checked out by end of the day. LA Arrivals(my area) has the easiest flight data position. Normally flight data works the computer tahts tied into the national database to put in flight plans and issue clearances, but since arrivals doesnt have any of that all we do here is give out strips.
Basically Each flight gets a flight "strip", a little strip of paper with boxes and info in each box(callsign, type of aircraft, destination, altitude, speed, etc). So we have to recognize the fixes on the strip in order to determine which sector we hand it to(there's 4). So its pretty easy and very laid back. We get 25 min breaks every hour...its sweet.
My trainer is really badass too. He looks like a combo of john tesh and rick flair, and he's very talkative and funny, plays lots of pranks. An older, only-flight-data guy from another area came over to tell the other trainee about a mistake that was really santa monica towers fault, so he went and yelled at him, and the next time that situation came he had us put in the weather wrong on purpose to annoy him. He also told me a story about when he tea-bagged another controller while he was sleeping during a break.
He's also moving to Australia in the fall. He applied a few years ago to a worldwide call for expereinced controllers in Sydney, and he just got the job, its a big deal apparently. He's been to Austrlia 39 times and loves it and surfs a lot and has a bunch of friends there so he's excited....its pretty cool. I'm eating edamame during work. that is all
**edit**
my trainer is hardcore into surfing, so i was asking him about how to get into it,sharks, etc. Apparently many of the controllers, many whome are older late 40's men, surf, which is neat. A bunch if them have dogs too, actually the three i talked to dogs about all have labs. Me and my trainer talked about our histories and stuff and he thinks that i'm a very quick learner and said that he remembered my first day that i asked a lot of questions, very interesting ones he never thought about, and said that he definitely thinks I have what it takes to make it
Basically Each flight gets a flight "strip", a little strip of paper with boxes and info in each box(callsign, type of aircraft, destination, altitude, speed, etc). So we have to recognize the fixes on the strip in order to determine which sector we hand it to(there's 4). So its pretty easy and very laid back. We get 25 min breaks every hour...its sweet.
My trainer is really badass too. He looks like a combo of john tesh and rick flair, and he's very talkative and funny, plays lots of pranks. An older, only-flight-data guy from another area came over to tell the other trainee about a mistake that was really santa monica towers fault, so he went and yelled at him, and the next time that situation came he had us put in the weather wrong on purpose to annoy him. He also told me a story about when he tea-bagged another controller while he was sleeping during a break.
He's also moving to Australia in the fall. He applied a few years ago to a worldwide call for expereinced controllers in Sydney, and he just got the job, its a big deal apparently. He's been to Austrlia 39 times and loves it and surfs a lot and has a bunch of friends there so he's excited....its pretty cool. I'm eating edamame during work. that is all
**edit**
my trainer is hardcore into surfing, so i was asking him about how to get into it,sharks, etc. Apparently many of the controllers, many whome are older late 40's men, surf, which is neat. A bunch if them have dogs too, actually the three i talked to dogs about all have labs. Me and my trainer talked about our histories and stuff and he thinks that i'm a very quick learner and said that he remembered my first day that i asked a lot of questions, very interesting ones he never thought about, and said that he definitely thinks I have what it takes to make it
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