(Note that for reasons that should become clear below this article wasn’t originally published back in 2012 when I wrote it. It has recently been edited somewhat as well.)
I started writing about some of my air traffic experiences back in 2007.
At that time the FAA had imposed work rules on the controller workforce, and it was pretty miserable going into work and discovering that in spite of the FAA wanting to be “large and in charge”, managed to time and time prove how incompetent they really were.
To borrow a phrase, they kept proving that they “couldn’t manage their way out of a paper bag.”
It was a very frustrating time to be working as an air traffic …
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