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still here and still waiting

Posted 11-24-2009 at 06:34 PM by liandrajade

soooo.....seem like life is repeating itself all over again....when i first applied to be an atc in jan '08, i was pregnant, waiting on the referral list for pubnat 1{thats right pubnat 1, I am the original stuckmic not a controller not even a pilot and i have no life member!!!!}

anyway, was waiting to hear about an interview location while i was pregnant, was spazzing about having to go okc while pregnant blah blah blah and boom! got an interview offer for ZDC....well you know what...
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Houston TRACON - Week Ten

Posted 11-19-2009 at 10:10 PM by I90trainee

Well...I just finished up ETG's on two radar positions. I was training on Departure North and Tomball. Tomball is a satellite radar position and Departure North handles all departures from all of the Houston area airports that are going north bound.

Tomball was a bit harder than North because nothing was standard. On Tomball, you have six different airports aircraft will depart from or arrive to...overflights, and lots of VFR aircraft wanting to do many different things. You have...
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A Long Overdue Update

Posted 11-04-2009 at 08:30 PM by meatasaurusx (My Journey to C90)
Updated 11-04-2009 at 10:05 PM by meatasaurusx (accidentally posted before I was done...whoops!)

So it is November and a lot has happened since my last update. I haven't been very good about keeping it up to date (obviously) but I will try and give an overview of everthing that has happened.

Flight Data

After getting out of the lab I started training on Flight Data. Although flight data is not the most glamourous position in the facility, it is still an important role to the entire operation. There are a lot of times when it is a rather slow position, but it provides...
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Houston TRACON - Week Nine

Posted 10-29-2009 at 10:03 PM by I90trainee

Well, this week, more of the same stuff...lots of ETGs, at least 3 per day. It has been pretty fun, but I'm beating myself up a little because I keep messing up stupid things that I should be getting at this point. Overall, I think I am doing fairly well. Just need to keep working on my phraseology and learn my airspace a little bit better.
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Houston TRACON - Week Eight

Posted 10-29-2009 at 09:55 PM by I90trainee

We just started running our scenarios. They rank the scenarios in difficultly by percentage points. We ran the slowest problem which was a 50%. At first it didn't seem that slow, but it is just to help us get the basics of vectoring, phraseology, and airpspace down. Once we get this down, we will bump it up to a higher percentage.

In order to get out on the "floor" (radar room) we must pass three graded problems. A 50%, 60%, and 70%. In order to pass these problems...
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