How to throw yourself under the bus

ChasenSFO said:
Well, to be fair, in the hood(the real hood not the homeless encampments), Derg's people call it "Frisco". But if you're local, it's "The City", and Oakland is "The Town". Everything else is either "Easy Bay", "South Bay", or "The Peninsula".
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Being from Southern California the “South Bay” refers to the beach cities and Torrance “RAT”. Oakland has been refered to as OakTown so I guess Town works just as easy. Funny the colloquialisms depending on where you are from. I think the one thing we can agree on though is San Francisco is never to be refered to as “Frisco”.
 
inigo88 said:
Palmcaster sucks. Some people make it work. The small town alternatives (Rosamond, Tehachapi) aren't much better. ZLA is a very cool facility though and seems reverse commutable for a lot of more desireable places. I still wanna visit High Desert TRACON (E10) at Edwards. Anybody know someone up there?
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It’s not that bad here if you live in the right areas. Cheap and a lot less busy than living down the 14. There is the Antelope Valley wind festival Jan 1- Dec 31 every year though haha.

I’d say half the facility lives in Santa Clarita, and half lives up here. I personally don’t see why I’d pay 600-700k for a house in Santa Clarita to be 40 mins from work and still 30 mins from anything in LA when I can have my house in the AV for 290k and be 15 mins from work, but that’s just me and I don’t have kids so I don’t have to worry about schools or anything yet. It is definitely a reverse commute which is nice, the only traffic you’d run into would be coming off the mid shift driving back down.

High desert is a cool facility, but it’s on the base and a kind of PITA to get to everyday. Most of those guys live in Palmdale/Lancaster too. Sorry for the threadjack haha
 
inigo88 said:
Palmcaster sucks. Some people make it work. The small town alternatives (Rosamond, Tehachapi) aren't much better. ZLA is a very cool facility though and seems reverse commutable for a lot of more desireable places. I still wanna visit High Desert TRACON (E10) at Edwards. Anybody know someone up there?
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I spent the better part of a month at the Tehachapi Marriott (Fairfield Inn). Found it to be a wonderful little town. It's a quiet place and not a lot was going on but I really grew to like it. Nice airport, the glider port south of town was a fun place too.

Living up one of the canyons south of town looked very attractive to me.

I spent a month renting a staging area from the nuns at the monastery at the end of Water Canyon Road and found them to be a breath of fresh air.

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NovemberEcho said:
Please do! Wish more pilots came out for a tour! I'll be more than happy to show you around or at least put you in touch with someone who can.
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I took a tour of NYC tracon a little over a decade ago when I was still flying aerial survey. Cool facility and the tour really helped us with our coordination of flights while in the Class B. Also toured Newark tower. Both experiences were well worth the time.
 
I took a tour of San Diego approach, now SoCal, when the screens were flat and they were still pushing shrimp boats. The following year I toured Burbank approach which was under the tower cab.
 
NovemberEcho said:
We haven't had a Christmas party in 3 years cause at the last one we had there were 2 fights, with one of them being a chick fight. They don't let us have nice things anymore.
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For my check out party, we went to the naked ladies bar. One dude pissed himself in the bathroom because he forgot to unzip, we got in a fight with some local..umm...white trash types. Almost went to jail, thankfully the limo driver/sober can was my rational buddy who talked the police into letting him take us home. Fun times.

Sometimes I miss our controller type parties.
 
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