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A Pilot Comes Face-to-Face with the Bureaucracy

By now, everyone knows that a controller at National Airport Tower in Washington fell asleep on duty last week during the midnight shift. The fact that this was a supervisor up there by himself always gives the National Air Traffic Controllers Association...

Published Mon, Mar 28 2011 6:43 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, FAA, ATC, NATCA, Air Traffic Controller, Randy Babbitt, airline pilot, Reagan National Airport, Washington National Airport

Controller Kudos

OK, I have to admit that occasionally Scott and I say a few things that upset folks, but only to pilots and air traffic controllers. Almost everyone else is safe … for now. But along with the ability to lob criticism on people and topics that we...

Published Tue, Mar 23 2010 3:57 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, FAA, Flight Training, pilots, ATC, NATCA, airline pilots, air safety, Air Traffic Controller, Archie League Safety Awards

NTSB Needs to Re-Admit NATCA to Investigation

In life, everyone makes mistakes. Most of the time, that’s really a good thing though because it offers us a unique path to become better at what we do. Being human though, admitting we screwed something up is not always easy, it’s downright...

Published Wed, Aug 19 2009 7:05 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, NATCA, air safety, Air Traffic Controller, NTSB, Teterboro Airport, Doug Church, Bob Richard, Hudson River midair collision

FAA: Customer Service Means Saying You’re Sorry

FAA held a customer service seminar last week in Chicago. I always chuckle a bit when someone combines the FAA acronym with anything that even sounds like customer service. Sorry PT & DB. But then, today’s my birthday so I suppose most readers...

Published Thu, Mar 12 2009 8:01 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, FAA, Cessna, NATCA, PATCO, Air Traffic Controller, Chicago Meigs Field, Midwest ATC, Waukegan Airport Air Traffic Control Tower, mid-air collision

The new FAA: Will we?

It’s another cold night in Chicago, but I stayed at work late to write because the issue of who will become the next FAA Administrator is really gnawing at me. Like the November election, this administrator choice is going to be an important one...

Published Thu, Jan 8 2009 3:05 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, ATC, NATCA, Aviation Marketing, Bobby Sturgell, Department of Transportation, SimpliFlying, Rahm Emanuel, Air Traffic Controller, Ray LaHood, Barack Obama, Shashank Nigam

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A Pilot Comes Face-to-Face with the Bureaucracy

Controller Kudos

NTSB Needs to Re-Admit NATCA to Investigation

FAA: Customer Service Means Saying You’re Sorry

The new FAA: Will we?