ShanwickOceanic wrote:Lucas wrote:We literally have controllers pissing in bottles.
I thought that was just Amazon drivers. Christ.
Hahaha. No. We literally are offered retirement or medical, our choice (price determined by executive order combined with an act of Congress, no less), EXCEPT tons of facilities just told the controllers that not only are they having pay reduced to the federal minimum, they're having their retirement eliminated, their vacation reset (where they even could take it, which is rare, given staffing), and housing nuked. AND CONTROLLERS CUT FROM THE FACILITY STAFFING! And we're talking about airports where the traffic is like this on final all the time:
A320, GLEX, GLF5, A319, E75L, CRJ7, C25B, B738...
Why can't we get radar given that MSBRS is literally plug-and-play? Because upkeep all combined could reach 40K a year, so use binoculars. Can we use ADS-B? Only through approved, 3rd party vendors, starting at 50K/month. How about CPDLC since we have the money independently? No, because some of OUR towers don't have it, so yours definitely can't, because it would create jealousy.
I mean literally they declined an extra controller across the board for 250 facilities because it would cost $40,000,000, and at the same time a Navy ship launched no-kidding $180M worth of missiles at Houthis and HIT NOTHING.
I would smash people's teeth out with bricks if I weren't a law-abiding citizen and if I knew which people to go for. (And they didn't have protection.)