Posted on 01/30/2025 4:46:17 PM PST by grundle
Trump knew what he was doing, he wants this discussion out in the open, and knew to strike when the iron is hot.
Obama the president who hated America more than any other
Tragedy requires the POTUS to be out front. He’s getting ahead of his critics that will try to pin it on him and every thing else that comes along. Covid-don’t let a crisis..
Katrina. It was the locals that screwed up royally. Years in the making. The blamed W for the followup. It worked and he turned the other cheek.
The trip to Palisades to point out the cause of the fires-really good. Should be followed up with a trip to Lahina.
What are these ‘sports’ of which you speak?
Obama is a racist. But I think we all already knew that.
The biographical test deducted points if math and science were your best classes in high school.
Who knew drama majors and political science buffs had superior visual-spatial skills?
The head of the Black air traffic controllers’ association emailed minority candidates and told them how to answer - no harm, no foul, no punishment, because he didn’t use his work email. I wonder how he got the list...not through work, surely.
This is how it’s done. Strike 1st and hard. Put the rats and MSM on defense and keep them there. No Republican has done it this well not even Reagan.
And yes, occasionally there will be a misfire or two, but that’s ok.
Bookmark
He’s piling on. Good for him.
All by design.
Exhausted, stressed-out air traffic controllers a risk to flight safety
by Diana HembreeDecember 6, 2023
Greetings, MindSite News Readers. In today’s Daily, air traffic controllers say they are so overworked and mentally exhausted that our aviation safety system is at risk. Four Black professionals in Los Angeles have created organizations that promote community and help people heal. And research finds that mental health apps, while helpful, fail to protect user data and privacy.
Air traffic controllers are exhausted, overworked and making dangerous mistakes
Air traffic controllers say they’re overworked, demoralized, and mentally exhausted to the point where one told the New York Times, “a deadly crash is inevitable.” They’re concerned that if nothing soon changes, cracks will become holes in a critical component of the nation’s aviation safety system. A primary issue is staffing shortages which are so severe that many controllers are on mandatory six-day, 10-hour work shifts, some which end just eight hours before they are to return to work. In the past two years, air traffic controllers and others have sent hundreds of complaints to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), putting unsuitable work conditions and concerns about controllers’ mental health on record. The Times investigative report is based on more than 70 interviews with current and former air traffic controllers, pilots, and federal officials, as well as federal safety reports and FAA records that the paper obtained.
The air safety problem linked to the burnout that controllers are facing cannot be overstated. A database of aviation safety issues shows one controller in Southern California who directed a plane to fly too low and wrote, “If I can make a small mistake like that, I can make a bigger one.” The error was attributed to exhaustion and working continuous overtime. And the controllers’ work is only growing. In the fiscal year that ended September 30, air traffic grew by 4 percent, as controller errors classified as “significant” rose more than 65 percent.
Overwork is also causing mental and physical health issues that some controllers are afraid to report, for fear of not receiving the medical clearances they need to stay on the job. To cope, some say they’ve turned to dangerous levels of caffeine, alcohol, and sleeping pills. Others simply retire, exacerbating the staffing shortage issue. The FAA estimates that roughly 10 percent of all controllers, or 1,400 people, will retire this year, and the National Airspace System Safety Review Team says the agency’s current hiring plan can’t replace them quickly enough. A net increase of fewer than 200 controllers is expected by 2032.
“We have recently had a heart attack, multiple panic attacks (including my own), people losing their medicals due to depression and some that just outright quit the FAA because it has gotten so bad,” one controller wrote in a confidential safety report. “Who knows how many other stress-induced physical and mental issues are happening that we don’t even know about yet. This place is breaking people. We need help. I’ll say it again, SOS!!” In support, Jennifer Homendy, the chairperson of the National Transportation Safety Board, told the Senate last month that the mental and physical pressure put upon controllers puts the nation’s air safety at risk. “We are putting the psychological stress of the entire aviation safety system on the shoulders of our ATC work force,” she said, “and this is unacceptable..
READ all at: https://mindsitenews.org/newsletter/exhausted-stressed-out-air-traffic-controllers-a-risk-to-flight-safety/
FAA applicant: I majored in air hockey.
FAA applicant #2: I played basketball and my coach liked to say I shot a lot of air balls.
I would have expected no less from obama, the racist.
It takes 2 to 3 years to train an air traffic controllers. Obama’s hiring practices messed up air traffic control hiring for years.
Diversity is literally killing my grandma
America DEIed and people DIEd.
Back in 2016, we took our son up to Univ. of North Dakota because of their flight program and at the time, it was one of the larger producers of air traffic controllers - at least that’s what I recall.
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