Busiest Facility

Roddy_Piper · Posted: 04-22-2010, 01:06 AM

i don't even know why u click in the air force. every 6 hours u just write the numbers u want anyway. clicker says 48 MIL...screw it, i'll write down 62.

radicrog · Posted: 01-19-2011, 08:12 PM

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Originally Posted by atcbrownie

stateside yes... but not busier or as complex as balad Iraq. I have seen at least 2 people from nellis not get checked out at balad and numerous from luke not get get fully checked out either. When I was at balad the cerap did over 90k ops per month.

I know this is an old post, but I bet you those people form nellis probably sucked to begin with.

mtlatc · Posted: 01-19-2011, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by radicrog

I know this is an old post, but I bet you those people form nellis probably sucked to begin with.

Heh..what do you expect when a flight of four from red flag can give you 100 ops on the count...

MaSheaB35 · Posted: 01-26-2011, 08:14 PM

My good freind was in the AF for 4 years at Minot AFB, ND. Minot is one of the slowest AFB's in the AF. But he was always a good controller with no mistakes to his account. He applied to the FAA, got the job, and is now fully checked out at ATL tower. Now he was never deployed or worked anywhere else but Minot, ND. But now he is checked out in one of the busiest towers in the world.

There are people that rise to the challenge of a harder facility, and people that wont be able to. It makes no difference where or what facility you came from.

polo708 · Posted: 01-26-2011, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by MaSheaB35

But now he is checked out in one of the busiest towers in the world.

Busy doesn't equal hard... There are some level 8 towers that are "harder" than level 12 towers. I'm just saying.

ATC_MacGyver · Posted: 01-27-2011, 06:30 AM

ft. greely, ak. 10k ops a year.

more impressive that i didnt go insane in the year that i was up there. i think that counts for at least a million ops. and yes. there were people who failed to get checked out up there.

gotta love the army.

as far as busy. i've been busy once in my career. that was 2-3 years ago at nas jax. i was on local. and it was about 4 hours long. I've had whole shifts of being steady. i've had other normal stuff. but seriously busy, balls to the wall telling aircraft to acknowledge with a double click. only once.

MaSheaB35 · Posted: 01-27-2011, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by polo708

Busy doesn't equal hard... There are some level 8 towers that are "harder" than level 12 towers. I'm just saying.

I agree, but the point im trying to make is that some people can step up to a challenge, and some people cant. It doesnt matter as much where you are from, it matters that you HAVE been rated and sustained ratings.

UNDgrad06 · Posted: 01-28-2011, 12:16 AM

ATL tower is busy but it's not complex. 5 parallel runways. 2/3 used for departure 2/3 used for arrivals. It would be safe to say it is very rare to have both happening on the same runway. They don't even have to do runway crossings some of the time because they have a high speed taxi way to goes down and around the end of the departure runway.

delrey · Posted: 03-14-2011, 11:58 AM

I worked as a scab at NY TRACON all by myself during the Reagan strike. I was active duty military at the time and had all the sectors to myself. I watched the FAA sups who hadn't touched a scope in over 10 years totally lose it. And that was in the the 80's when it was all fair game and 10X busier than anything you could imagine today. Nowadays, you all have your little safety nets, new regs and fancy computerized technology to do it for you. Back then, we did it FOR REAL!!! You would all run for the hills if you were dropped in that place back then.