New "controller" at KJFK Tower...

Kestrel452 said:
Where is the common sense in letting a child into a tower and direct traffic? Especially at such busy one to boot. Why should children be allow to talk on the radio while grown adults aren't allowed to even step foot inside the tower unless they're strongly involved with aviation? My ex-RA who is in CTI here can't even visit the class D tower here in town.

These are the kinds of things that create easily preventable accidents which make the government invoke laws on the rest of us. I don't consider my POV to be ignorant, but rather looking past how "cute" this is and seeing just how whack this guy is for bringing his kids into an environment where even the slightest hiccup or distraction can cause the deaths of hundreds.

My opinion is just as valid as all the other non-controllers trying to say that it was "cute".
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Dude, go back to reading this and leave your bitchiness at the door:

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Doug Taylor said:
I'd love to take over a television station and say, "America, stop pissing your pants over this, now turn the TV off and play with your kids"
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Amen. Nothing better to do with our bored spectatorial lives than get sand in our nethers over some non-event "threat to Our Safe-tay". Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?
 
zmiller4 said:
No kidding. "Outraged in Westchester", while you're posting angry comments on Foxnews.com your 8 year old is playing Grand Theft Auto and looking at internet porn.
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At least he isn't parroting an deadly irresponsible adult because than that may affect what he does in the future.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Amen. Nothing better to do with our bored spectatorial lives than get sand in our nethers over some non-event "threat to Our Safe-tay". Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?
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And we've become a national of 'citizen judges', sitting on our couch discussing other's fate.

"Ahh... Hmm. Yeah, Mrs. Woods should leave Tiger. I just don't buy his apology. I need to see more"

"Well, there it is, the fat kid needs to prevail over the skinny kid that sang that country song on American Idol".

"That dude should marry that one girl that was the smart one. NOT the other one with the big hoo-hoo's"

"Those pilots should be fired. I KNOW they were sleeping, I just know."

"Fire that controller! Lives were at stake!"

And the only evidentiary material is what they see on television or hear around the watercooler.
 
Whew, good thing the kid didn't tell an aircraft to fly to 50 feet and pop the chutes. Threat to everyones saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety! :whatever::whatever:
 
Doug Taylor said:
And we've become a national of 'citizen judges', sitting on our couch discussing other's fate.

"Ahh... Hmm. Yeah, Mrs. Woods should leave Tiger. I just don't buy his apology. I need to see more"

"Well, there it is, the fat kid needs to prevail over the skinny kid that sang that country song on American Idol".

"That dude should marry that one girl that was the smart one. NOT the other one with the big hoo-hoo's"

"Those pilots should be fired. I KNOW they were sleeping, I just know."

"Fire that controller! Lives were at stake!"




And the only evidentiary material is what they see on television or hear around the watercooler.
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:clap::clap:
 
So freakin' sad. Just heard John Nance (former airline pilot dude now showing his tool on ABC) say "this would be like me taking a kid and putting him on my lap while I land the plane". Are you freakin' kidding me?! There is ANOTHER e-mail I need to send out.
 
HeyEng said:
So freakin' sad. Just heard John Nance (former airline pilot dude now showing his tool on ABC) say "this would be like me taking a kid and putting him on my lap while I land the plane". Are you freakin' kidding me?! There is ANOTHER e-mail I need to send out.
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Let me dig around the admin panel of the website. If we've got Miles O'Brien, I know we've got Nance here somewhere.
 
This is all just insane and the only reason the FAA is looking into is the moronic media picked it up and the FAA doesn't have the balls to tell the to go piss off.

I have seen controllers do this in the past and I plugged in during a tower and tracon tour and cleared a few planes myself.

What all should is write a to the FAA and our elected reps and try and save these guys jobs

Just my .02 worth
 
Oh lord, now the local media out here in PHX is pooping it's pants.

Sorry Haiti and Chile, we've got a Youtube of a kid on the radio in JFK.
 
Doug Taylor said:
Oh lord, now the local media out here in PHX is pooping it's pants.

Sorry Haiti and Chile, we've got a Youtube of a kid on the radio in JFK.
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Don't you know? A "sky is falling" story is WAY better than "the ground has shaken' story.
 
Found on a Canadian website in the comment section after the article about the kid talking to airplanes. The majority of the comments were actually intelligent. Kind of cool.

Typical American paranoia. Kids are our futures and we who have them realize its huge to involve them in our careers. He was instructed to say what was said and anyone who thinks these pilots would have just gone ahead and done what the child had said if it was off base or wrong. So sad our world has come to this. We are turning into the NO FUN world... sad
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Doug Taylor said:
I miss controllers being able to jumpseat. That was one program that really enabled us to sit down and understand one another's jobs and increase safety.

I'd love to take over a television station and say, "America, stop pissing your pants over this, now turn the TV off and play with your kids"
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Rumor in the FAA is the program is on its way back. They just needed to get a new way to verify identification. So, now that the FAA has the PIV cards maybe it'll happen soon.
 
Screw the government! This was in no way dangerous given the few transmissions the kid did. No one was put in harms way!

Good thing pilots do 16 hour shifts; depressed, angry, and exhausted crew enhances safety too!
 
juxtapilot said:
Found on a Canadian website in the comment section after the article about the kid talking to airplanes. The majority of the comments were actually intelligent. Kind of cool.
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You know, what got me into aviation was a in-flight cockpit visit on a United Airlines 727 from Visalia, CA to San Francisco.

I was sold.

We're so paranoid and "bruiseable" as a culture now, it's pretty sad.

I'm surprised the dorks on TMZ haven't screamed about the controller needing to go to "Microphone Rehab" or something like that.
 
NATCA National should be ashamed if its self, what a bunch of traffic dodgeing douch bags.this isnt that union that i and other helped to start.
 
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