Part 5 - What's Next

Well, it’s official. I’ve graduated the FAA Air Traffic Control Academy training and will be headed to...

Part 4: Final PA and Placement

Thursday would bring a relaxed day for me, with only one simple ground run in the morning, which for me, didn’t affect my pass/fail status, only my class rank. It was my race to lose, since I was sitting at the high in the class with a potential high score of 94%. Because the local runs are weighted twice the amount the ground runs are, nobody else in the class was mathematically eligible to beat my score, provided I...

Part 3 - Day 2 of PAs

On day 2 of PAs, I had a ground run early in the morning, which I scored 100 on. It was easy, ground is very difficult to mess up, in my opinion. You just have to be in control of what is going on, listen to readbacks, and pay attention to what you’ve been taught.

Later in the day, however, I would...

Part 2 - PAs

The first day of PAs would bring a high level of anxiety to the class. In a nutshell, we showed up on the first day of PAs to find a schedule on the wall of our different slots for PAs. Each of us was scheduled for 4 different PAs, two on local and two on ground. I quickly glanced at the schedule and saw that I was slated to have a local run at 10:50 that morning, AHH! I was pretty nervous, but trying to...

Part 1: The Past Week Recaps

First, I’ll apologize for being so late on this, the past week has been very busy and crazy. I’ve broken up the blogs into five sections in case your time is limited. Part one is below, otherwise I’ve provided links to the other parts.

My last blog left off with my weak attempts at packing (which would prove to bite me in the butt later, but more on that later) last week. On Monday of this past week we ran our final scenarios in the TSS labs...