>> rotation is hardest on the body, but a favorite ... due to the time off.
>> Did he truly have an undisturbed eight hours of rest before his Air Traffic Control Shift?
As a senior airline captain, when I taught CRM (Crew Resource Management) courses to the flight attendants at our airline some years ago, I informally surveyed the group re. adequate rest before duty. It was not uncommon for many of them to report for a 15-16 hour duty day (Pacific flight) having had 3-5 hours sleep the night before.
Sounds like a “personal responsibility” issue here. Controllers are an extremely high IQ group. Unlike airline pilots, most have nothing more than a high school diploma. They have damn good pay, no layoffs, and a great retirement for the amount of “picking sh*t with the chickens” they had to do to get there. Quit screwing around and get some sleep before your shift. Come to work prepared.
Note:
ZAB = Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center
ZME = Memphis Air Route Traffic Control Center
"Sounds like a “personal responsibility” issue here.
Controllers are an extremely high IQ group.
Unlike airline pilots, most have nothing more than a high school diploma.
They have damn good pay, no layoffs, and a great retirement for the amount of “picking sh*t with the chickens” they had to do to get there.
Quit screwing around and get some sleep before your shift.
Come to work prepared."
What you say, I agree with.
"Personal Responsibility" ...you bet!
Extremely high IQ ... yes, and let it be noted that the larger facility you go to, the nastier group of cut-throats you have to put up with.
When controllers get bored, they feed on their young with excessive harassment.
Nothing more than a high school diploma... I disagree.
In the military, all branches, promotions are slow, so you "Square fill" your performance reports, and off duty education is a very important one.
Most get 64 semester hours credit, just for getting a 5-level rating
and are well on their way to a A.S. or B.S. degree, usually with Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.
They go to night school at their home base and normally finish the degree in 12 to 18 months to a B.S. level.
Some then go on to take management courses and work toward a Master's Degree in Business Management or Business Administration.
After those degrees, they've maxed out their squares on their performance reports.
Layoffs ... if they get out of the military BEFORE they retire
then the threat of not getting rated and loosing their paycheck through a "washout" ... that weighs heavily on their mind.
And returning to the military, that's normally a loss of several stripes due to being out more than one year.
Yes, the military will normally wavier their age problems, and re-enlist them.
But there's still the DoD civilian controller jobs, as well as Civilian Contract jobs.
"Quit screwing around and get some sleep before your shift.
Come to work prepared.""
I couldn't agree, more.