Posted on 10/25/2025 9:18:57 AM PDT by DFG
🚨 BREAKING: It was just revealed that young air traffic controllers are BAILING on the academy because Democrats shut the government down.
Holy smokes. Chuck Schumer's actions are now having devastating ripple effects - worse than initially thought.
SEC. DUFFY: "Some of our young controllers in the academy and some who have been given spots in the next class of the academy are BAILING! They're walking away!"
"They're asking themselves, why do I want to go into a profession where I could work hard and have the potential of not being paid for my services?"
"And so we're seeing that real consequence right now. That affects my ability to continue the surge and get more people, more young, well-trained controllers into our system."
Trump came in and had Duffy begin to clean up the air traffic shortage - and Chuck is bent on causing another one. Disgusting.
Dem pols have made it clear they are doing this because they want to inflict pain. One said they plan to keep this going through Thanksgiving.
Will any Dem voters wake up?
Low-Band Frequencies
600, 700, 850 MHz
Cell Tower Range - Up to 25 miles
https://dgtlinfra.com/cell-tower-range-how-far-reach/
Capt. Bart Mancuso: The hard part about playing chicken is knowin’ when to flinch.
Multiple demidiots have gone public that they WANT these ‘ripple effects.’
*yawn*
The Democrat Party is going against the will of the voters and going against the will of the majority that were elected by the voters. And why? Well, to save democracy, of course!! I mean: the stupid voters elected Hitler! You can’t let them do that! Defy the people! Defy the People! Save democracy! Save our bureaucracy! By laying off our bureaucrats!
Willing to bet there are plenty of out of work citizens who would gladly take their place if given the opportunity.
Sonde like hogwash. They will ultimately all get paid, just like their bureaucrat cousins.
We need to privatize the ATCs, they should get their paychecks from the airlines.
After all these shutdowns and I’ve come the realization - Fed.gov is mostly useless. The ONLY thing Fed.gov is good at is sending out entitlement checks.
ASK EVERY SINGLE ONE-—ON RECORD-—HOW DO THEY VOTE?????
NOT A BAD IDEA...
AIRLINES ALL OUT $$$$$$ INTO A FUND THAT PAYS ATC’S AND ISSUES w-2’s
Only aircraft seeking to land shall enter an airport FAA landing cone, and only into its green zone.
Aircraft taking off shall endeavor to stay in their airport FAA takeoff cone green zone.
These FAA cones shall be bifurcated, splitting apart for jet and general aviation use.
The FAA cones shall be recomputed every 20 minutes. A green zone may not be extended past the preceding yellow zone.
Every pilot wishing to enter a landing zone shall broadcast the intention to do so at about 10 minutes, 6 minutes and 3 minutes before doing so. The announcement shall be of the following form:
Airport code
runway desired
distance out (from runway) (on the runway plane)
Aircraft shall only take off in the first 10 minutes of each 20-minute period. Jet aircraft may only line up in the first 5 minutes of each 20-minute period. Other aircraft may only line up within 3 minutes after such periods.
Welcome to FAA Runway Landing Booking
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What does that have to do with the story??
That one a rather ignorant view of airport operations and it certainly is not how air traffic is controlled today.
“What does that have to do with the story??”
Do we really need air traffic controllers?
I think some simple rules and simple software apps would permit their retirement.
There are lots of cars on the road and we don’t have human road traffic controllers. Instead, we have traffic lights.
If I see a problem, I’m inclined to seek a solution.
Don’t make problems for me and I won’t cause problems for troublemakers.
Welcome to your Southwest flight, Mr. Griffin.
“That one a rather ignorant view of airport operations and it certainly is not how air traffic is controlled today.”
There are other people who are more knowledgeable who could step up.
I await their action.
“Do we really need air traffic controllers?”
Nope. We need controllers. Equating car driving to flying in 3D space is just being ignorant of the two environments.
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