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Labor Day 2011

In our house when I was a kid, Labor Day was always a big celebration. My father retired at age 65 from life as a union plasterer, a profession few people can even define today. My grandfather on my mom’s side, John Kikulski, was one of the first presidents...

Published Mon, Sep 5 2011 6:14 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, pilots, NATCA, Aviation Marketing, ALPA, PATCO, Labor Day, American jobs, John Kikulski, labor, Pullman Strike, unemplyment
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
NATCA’s Future and the Public Employee Debate

A number of Republican governors have been pegging the media’s popularity meters the past few weeks with talk of pouncing on the collective bargaining rights of public service employees, one of the last havens of solid unionism left in America, short...

Published Mon, Mar 7 2011 8:56 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Flight Training, NATCA, airline pilots, Aviation Marketing, Bobby Sturgell, Marion Blakey, air traffic controllers, Randy Babbitt, Scott Walker
FAA: Credit Where it’s Due

Regular Jetwhine readers know that a story posted here relating to the FAA is not unusual, nor is the fact that I tend not to be terribly supportive of some of the people who work there. Regular readers should know that I try – note the word try – to...

Published Mon, Feb 14 2011 6:48 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Flight Training, NATCA, airline pilots, Aviation Marketing, Bobby Sturgell, Marion Blakey, air traffic controllers, Fox TV News, Randy Babbitt, FAA Administrator
Air Traffic Control: Over-Controlling

The service delivered by some ATC facilities today is just not what it used to be in the old days before the PATCO strike. There, I said it. Having been around in the old days – like the 70s – when traffic at most towers was insane by today’s standards...

Published Mon, Dec 20 2010 3:51 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, NATCA, Aviation Marketing, kdpa, kenosha, kenw, kpwk, kugn, towers, vfr, waukegan
Oshkosh, the Verb

Sometimes we bloggers simply talk too much trying to express how we feel about something like AirVenture when simply letting the story tell itself works much better. With that clever insight in mind, may I present for your review, a few photos that made...

Published Fri, Jul 30 2010 9:23 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airports, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, Jetwhine, NATCA, Aviation Marketing, Light sport aircraft, Cessna Aircraft Company, air traffic controllers, Bob Richards, Wittman Regional Airport, EAA, Women in Aviation, Podcast, Sonex Aircraft, MyTransponder, Airplane Geeks, Airspeed podcast, Bob Stangarone, Elissa Lines, FlyAbout, John and Jeremy Monet, Monika Petrillo, Peggy Chabrian, Red Three, Secrets form the Tower, Sennheiser, Steve Tuppper, Tom Poberezny
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
Bring Your Kid to Work, ATC Style

When I saw the caller ID this morning with CNN’s address I figured something awful was up. Usually is. “Can you talk about the Kennedy incident,” the producer asked me? Didn’t sound like she wanted me to talk about the impending...

Published Thu, Mar 4 2010 12:00 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, FAA, pilots, airline, ATC, NATCA, kid controller, JFK Tower
More Flap About NWA 188

My story a few weeks ago about the two guys flying past MSP and the penalty they incurred for abandoning their post for over an hour seemed like a no-brainer to me. The two pilots were distracted for some reason we were unaware of at (Photo: Fokker Aircraft...

Published Thu, Dec 10 2009 3:11 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, Airlines, Airports, FAA, Blogging, Flight Training, ATC, NATCA, air traffic controllers, air safety, Minneapolis, Max Trescott on GA, professional pilots, NWA 188
NATCA’s New Leadership

The fact that the FAA and it’s cadre of air traffic controllers will be working with a new leader who will be announced later today is only the beginning of the story of how this union fits into the overall plan of our nation’s airspace system...

Published Fri, Sep 18 2009 2:39 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, The Buzz, FAA, air travel, NATCA, National Air Traffic Controllers Association, NextGen, Randy Babbitt, Paul Rinaldi, Ruth Marlin
9/11: Lost for Words

Yes, it does happen … a time when I simply don’t know what to say. Or perhaps it is my age showing and I realize that there are times it is better to say nothing than to manufacture prose that comes off feeling contrived. Today, September...

Published Sat, Sep 12 2009 3:11 AM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, NATCA, John Carr, Jon Ostrower, Cranky Flier, Paul Rinaldi, Brett Snyder, Ruth Marlin, The Main Bank, flightblogger
A New Union Marketing Strategy, Hire a Republican

It’s Labor Day again and some fresh thinking is long past due. Everyone knows the American labor movement has fallen off the edge of a cliff the past few decades and even a blue president isn’t going to be able to fix it all. The big question...

Published Mon, Sep 7 2009 6:23 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, NATCA, ALPA, Northwestern University, Labor Day, Union organizers, Wal-Mart, Boeing strike, Sam Gompers
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’s Babbitt Might Just be a Standup Guy

FAA’s new administrator for the past 70 days, Randy Babbitt, last week spoke about regional airline safety centered around fallout from the crash of Colgan 3407. The audience in Washington was receptive, helped in part by the fact that they were...

Published Mon, Aug 10 2009 9:00 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: The Buzz, FAA, air travel, NATCA, airline pilots, air traffic controllers, Air Line Pilots Association, airline safety, Randy Babbitt, Stand-ups, Colgan 3407, Continuous Duty Overnights, regional airline safety
Pilots: Who Needs Them?

Qualified professionals to operate the world’s fleet of new, high-technology aircraft are more necessary than ever before, despite a growing proliferation of UAVs. Unfortunately, airline management and their pilots are not always on the same page...

Published Mon, Aug 3 2009 10:55 PM by Jetwhine

Filed under: Air Traffic Control, Airlines, FAA, Business Aviation, Blogging, Flight Training, NATCA, Aviation Marketing, air traffic controllers, ALPA, airline pilot, business aviation pilots

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Labor Day 2011

A Pilot Comes Face-to-Face with the Bureaucracy

NATCA’s Future and the Public Employee Debate

FAA: Credit Where it’s Due

Air Traffic Control: Over-Controlling

Oshkosh, the Verb

Controller Kudos

Bring Your Kid to Work, ATC Style

More Flap About NWA 188

NATCA’s New Leadership

9/11: Lost for Words

A New Union Marketing Strategy, Hire a Republican

NTSB Needs to Re-Admit NATCA to Investigation

FAA’s Babbitt Might Just be a Standup Guy

Pilots: Who Needs Them?