Airspace reclassification--KLGB

[RDoug]

KCMA neither. "Insufficient staffing."

So much for this promise:

Marion C. Blakey, the administrator, promised that her agency would have “the right number of controllers in the right place at the right time,” and that as the retirements approached, she would hire some controllers in advance of need to maintain a balance of veteran controllers and trainees.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

So much for this promise:

I seem to remember a NATCA Facility Safety Rep at ZTL warning about this some years ago. He wrote a pretty nifty series of columns, too.

 

[RDoug]

I seem to remember a NATCA Facility Safety Rep at ZTL warning about this some years ago. He wrote a pretty nifty series of columns, too.

Don Brown. He's given up his Say Again?http://www.avweb.com/news/sayagain/ column on AvWeb, but he still blogs at GetTheFlickhttp://gettheflick.blogspot.com/.

 

[crfguy51]

Toddisms:
-"I SAY AGAIN"
-"two fife left INTERSECTION delta"
-"roger"
-"NOVEMBER 124AB"
-"TRAFFIC PATTERN ALTITUDE IS ONE THOUSAND, mode C indicating ONE thousand ONE hundred, descend to traffic pattern altitude IMMEDIATELY"
-"Repeat FULL callsign with EVERY transmission"

 

[genot]

Whats a tower guy doing worrying about someone's mode C or for that matter even worrying about vertical separation!?!? Sounds like someone who doesn't know what he needs, nor understands the .65.

 

[trafficinsight]

Don Brown. He's given up his Say Again? column on AvWeb, but he still blogs at GetTheFlick.

Thank you for that. I liked his columns