garyscharpf.bsky.social
I'm just the guy who gives the holding instructions.
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The trade-off was that it was 25 years of rotating shifts and working nights and weekends. Generally you're expected to die younger. Hence the early retirement.
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The stability of the job used to be a selling point compared to the boom-bust cycles that most aviation jobs are subject to.
You could do 25 years of the same job in the same control room and walk out with a decent pension. Plus, we get good government benefits, etc.
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The difference is there are big, visible, parts of the federal government even the most nihilistic DOGE guys DO want functioning.
They just nuked the TSA workers' union contract last week. Those workers aren't going to keep showing up UNPAID for a month and act like everything is normal.
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Fuck that guy.
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This guy hates pilots so much he delayed negotiating a new pilot contract for *8 years*.
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@weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social I'm going to need an episode of Odd Lots on this. @dashiell.bsky.social
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Ha. I finally broke down and bought a subscription last week. I should have signed up years ago.
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Lol... And a kneeboard strapped on.
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JD thinks this is an Air Traffic Controller.
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What they want is smooth brains that can learn new skills quickly. They've been advertising for "gamers" to apply the last few years.
That said, if I were in charge, I'd drop the age restrictions and require an ATP and 1500 hours. I want to work with aviators, not gamers.
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Independence Air was quite a thing.
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This is my first day not putting a headset on since Feb 3. These new fatigue rules are...interesting.
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Oh definitely. Upgrades being slow, deliberate, and methodical is a feature, not a bug, in aviation.
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Realistically, these people are going to see how analog the ATC system actually is and just give up.
Sure, we use a lot of colorful screens and monitors. But the actual work of controlling traffic is 100% manual.
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In a few years, some company will make bank by prescribing it off-label to help Gen Z guys control their sports gambling addictions.
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No. The big wave that got hired in 2006-2013 can retire in 2033-2040ish. So even if they get caught up in the next 2-4 years the bottom will fall out again later on.