Comments on: FAA Solves ATC Staffing Crisis

By: X man

X man — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:00:46 +0000

C’mon Rose Red, are you management? Manglement is a great spot to observe transfers and terminations. If you are a controller, do you downplay all of manglements totally asanine decisions?

By: The FAA Follies » Blog Archive

The FAA Follies » Blog Archive — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:14:35 +0000

[...] Rob Mark reported in his blog a while back, the FAA has found a way to dummy up the staffing numbers. The agency has decided to [...]

By: inmate # 040910

inmate # 040910 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:44:42 +0000

Hard to believe, but Rose Red completely missed the point of the article. It wasn’t about reducing the number of training failures. It was about the FAA “rebaselining” how they count controllers. If the FAA reduces the number of sectors a trainee needs to become a CPC (certified professional controller) then the FAA can throw their hands up in the air and say “What staffing crisis? Union propoganda.” Brilliant!

By: Rose Red

Rose Red — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:49:49 +0000

I’ve observed many cases where a controller excelled in the tower and couldn’t grasp the concept of RADAR control. The result: transfer or termination. We need good tower controllers as well as good RADAR controllers. Maybe this plan will result in a reduced number of terminations.
I think it’s worth a try.

By: Friday Links. « An Aviator’s Blog.

Friday Links. « An Aviator’s Blog. — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:27:15 +0000

[...] JetWhine’s Robert Market writes about how the FAA solved / is solving the Air Traffic Controller staffing [...]

By: John J. Tormey III, Esq.

John J. Tormey III, Esq. — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:38:38 +0000

“You see, when your FAA career like Ruth Leverenz’s is predicated upon sucking-up to an incompetent trailer-trash ‘boss’ legacy-case like Bobby Sturgell whose main accomplishment in life is to have seen no less than 3,383 civilian aviation deaths under his criminal 5-year FAA ‘watch’ – well then, you do a LOT of stroking – as in: ‘There, there Bobby. Let me wipe away your salty seafaring lamprey tears with my STRONG RIGHT HAND.”
http://indictsturgell.blogspot.com/2008/10/bobby-sturgells-strong-right-hand-and.html

By: OBAMA 08

OBAMA 08 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:51:27 +0000

Oh and guess what,
to be a stupidvisor, they take those from the controller ranks. There again is a continuing staffing shortage avenue managment expect to hire from. Especially when they take someone off the “boards” to sit behind a desk and work out a break list.

Check some off those facilities they want to split and see the complete management to controller staffing numbers.

2 to 1 or 3 to 1. Run it like a business? Not any business I ever worked at.

Thank you Jet Whine for being Spot On with these staffing issues.

By: Bushed

Bushed — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:49:32 +0000

“It’s counterproductive – no wait, it’s silly – to assume that the people who control air traffic will simply go along with yet another new direction from the bosses for whom they already have zero respect, something the agency has managed to show controllers in return.”

Maybe you ment to write, “something the agency has NOT managed to show”? Or did I read that incorrectly?
Move the goal post and play on. That’s all they seem to know how to do.

By: atcadvocate

atcadvocate — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:19:44 +0000

rebaseline, rebaseline, rebaseline………..

Once again, the FAA has rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic!