teetee
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I was going to write about this a while ago and life have been a bit busy. The Monday before Thanksgiving, my husband was finally able to to tour where he was going to be working in May of 2009. What he thought would take 45 minutes to an hour took about 2 1/2 hours!
Since we are working on one car currently, I drove him to the tour. After dropping him off, the kids and I headed to downtown to look around for a bit. After 30 minutes we headed back so he wouldn't have to wait for us. We ended up waiting almost an hour and a half! It was worth the wait though cause he had a blast.
They first took him in and he had to go through security. Once through security they took him around and basically just showed him the building. He was introduced to many of the people that were currently working. The guy taking him on the tour is a family friend and has worked there for 24 years. He is well known and was able to introduce my husband to all the management and everything.
Since my husband is coming into this OTS with pilot background he received a LOT of good advice such as: you have to remember that although you sympathize for the pilot, you can't provide what they ask for just because they ask for it. You have to do your job whether you are liked by the pilot or not (something that was good for my husband to hear).
After this came all the "cool" stuff. They tapped him in with a controller and he was able to sit at the radar with the controller and experience live traffic and controlling. He LOVED it! He talked about it forever upon returning to the car.
It was a good thing he had such great news for me cause I had bad news for him. I had worn out the battery on the car with running only on battery while the kids watched Kung Fu Panda in the back I guess I should have started the car after 45 minutes to an hour of waiting
He was going to come on here and give all the info to everyone but honestly he has been so busy between finishing up school for the semester and training everyone at his current job on how to do it when he leaves he hasn't had much time.
Ben was so glad that he was able to get the tour and he put forth the effort to get one set up (even with a FOL for ZLC, there was still red tape to get him in there and touring the place) Actually sitting in the room that will be his future job site and witnessing the work he will be doing really helped him prepare for OKC.
Anyway, just wanted to share cause well, I wanted to! If you have any questions, you can ask them and I will either ask him and answer or get him on here to answer. He told me so many cool things about it, I have forgotten many but I am so excited for him!!!
Since we are working on one car currently, I drove him to the tour. After dropping him off, the kids and I headed to downtown to look around for a bit. After 30 minutes we headed back so he wouldn't have to wait for us. We ended up waiting almost an hour and a half! It was worth the wait though cause he had a blast.
They first took him in and he had to go through security. Once through security they took him around and basically just showed him the building. He was introduced to many of the people that were currently working. The guy taking him on the tour is a family friend and has worked there for 24 years. He is well known and was able to introduce my husband to all the management and everything.
Since my husband is coming into this OTS with pilot background he received a LOT of good advice such as: you have to remember that although you sympathize for the pilot, you can't provide what they ask for just because they ask for it. You have to do your job whether you are liked by the pilot or not (something that was good for my husband to hear).
After this came all the "cool" stuff. They tapped him in with a controller and he was able to sit at the radar with the controller and experience live traffic and controlling. He LOVED it! He talked about it forever upon returning to the car.
It was a good thing he had such great news for me cause I had bad news for him. I had worn out the battery on the car with running only on battery while the kids watched Kung Fu Panda in the back I guess I should have started the car after 45 minutes to an hour of waiting
He was going to come on here and give all the info to everyone but honestly he has been so busy between finishing up school for the semester and training everyone at his current job on how to do it when he leaves he hasn't had much time.
Ben was so glad that he was able to get the tour and he put forth the effort to get one set up (even with a FOL for ZLC, there was still red tape to get him in there and touring the place) Actually sitting in the room that will be his future job site and witnessing the work he will be doing really helped him prepare for OKC.
Anyway, just wanted to share cause well, I wanted to! If you have any questions, you can ask them and I will either ask him and answer or get him on here to answer. He told me so many cool things about it, I have forgotten many but I am so excited for him!!!