How do you explain to people that you work at an ARTCC?
Long story short I'll be headed to Seattle ARTCC next year and I'm having a really hard time explaining to my friends and family (that are without an aviation background) what I'll be doing there. They keep thinking that I'm going to be working at an airport... I tried telling them I'll be in a building nowhere near an airport. I tried mentioning I'll be controlling traffic in the enroute phase of flight most likely in the flight levels. I guess the best way to describe what I'm going through is the part in Pushing Tin where all the controllers are eating breakfast at the diner and that one girl said "so you work in a tower somewhere." Get my drift? Haha, sometimes I think I should just say I'll be working in a tower...
Long story short I'll be headed to Seattle ARTCC next year and I'm having a really hard time explaining to my friends and family (that are without an aviation background) what I'll be doing there. They keep thinking that I'm going to be working at an airport... I tried telling them I'll be in a building nowhere near an airport. I tried mentioning I'll be controlling traffic in the enroute phase of flight most likely in the flight levels. I guess the best way to describe what I'm going through is the part in Pushing Tin where all the controllers are eating breakfast at the diner and that one girl said "so you work in a tower somewhere." Get my drift? Haha, sometimes I think I should just say I'll be working in a tower...