One Year Ago Today

A little over a year ago I began a crazy journey to become an Air Traffic Controller. In the summer of 2016, I attended the FAA training academy in Oklahoma. After successfully passing, I was placed at my facility and arrived in August of 2016, and shortly after...

September Updates - Part 2

Radar Training: Live traffic!

In late August, I started training in the radar room on live traffic. After having a break from...

September Updates - Part 1

Here’s what has been going on in the world of ATC since I got back from RTF...

July: the rest of the month of July was spent getting current up in the tower...

RTF - Tl;Dr

Here’s the Tl;Dr summary of RTF, for those interested:

"Ghomer" Runs

Yesterday we ran 6 lab problems. They were all “targeted” problems – supposedly selected problems to help us work on areas we need to improve on. The problems weren’t targeted at all...

Skills Check 2

Today started off by running a single-sector problem, that was pretty busy. It was super fun. My instructor let me run it pretty much on my own, and I don’t remember making any crazy mistakes. The west flow went pretty well...

Almost Finished

In labs today, we finished running the problem we started Friday (as you can tell by previous posts, we don’t necessarily start a new problem every day, our rotation is a bit off), so I ran the East flow version of that problem. It went pretty well...

Final Week in OKC

Well, last Friday was my last in OKC, hopefully for a long time. We finished the run we had started Thursday, I ran North and South, which went pretty well. The problems weren’t overly busy and I felt I did pretty well. We stepped it up...