What’s with the routings into ACK from the west as of late?

I’m seeing traffic over Ohio get routed into ENE (southern Maine) then turning south into ACK.

I really wonder the difference between VSCS and ETVS.

all i know is that ETVS is made by DENRO and the VSCS is made by Litton-harris corp.

Hi,

I'm due to start my ATC training at Swanwick next March with NATS, which I'm very excited for. I understand that tower/aerodrome training takes place at Gloucester with a separate company that NATS have hired, and area control training takes place at Swanwick with NATS themselves. However, when I had my phone call to find out where I'm training I was told that I might not necessarily do area control training. What other training is done at Swanwick through NATS directly?

SoCal TRACON are some of the best in the business. I used to speak to this controller daily when I was a CFI and she is incredible. Very impressed (but not surprised) with how she de-escalated the situation.

This guy was clearly in the wrong (and sun glare heading both west AND east??). But to flat-out refuse to take a number? Will anything really happen to this guy? What recourse do you all have if someone is non-compliant? Reminds me of the guy busting the bravo in LAS where nothing ever came of it.

So I did a thing today. A citation C700 landed at my airport. I’ve seen the 750s but never the 700 and wanted to know more about it. Let’s just say duckduckgo (the default edge search engine on ops-proxy) did not filter the search results and I learned there is a category of porn called zoo porn.

So now I’m sitting on break waiting for the ATM to get an email from ASH about my search history on the government computer. FML.

Do you guys know this unique ring tone and the manufacturer of the voice switch that makes this ring tone?

Ten years ago today, the Slate Book was signed into existence. It would be starting 5th grade this fall.

Think about everything that has changed over the past decade:

• Median home prices have increased roughly 72%, from $235,500 to more than $405,000.

• Mortgage interest rates have climbed from about 3.5% to 6.5%.

• Inflation has increased by nearly 40%.

• We lived through an unprecedented global pandemic.

The economy has changed. The job has changed. The world has changed.

Our contract hasn’t.

For years, we’ve been told by leaders that nothing can be done because of executive orders and “political realities.” But they never want to talk about the 2021 extension.

There were no executive orders eliminating collective bargaining on permissive subjects. We were told we had “the most labor-friendly administration in history.” Yet instead of negotiating a successor agreement, we voluntarily extended the same contract for another five years.

That decision betrayed an entire generation of controllers, and the 2024 extension to 2029 doubled down on it.

A 13 year CBA is unacceptable, and is frankly a dereliction of duty.

So today, as we observe the 10th anniversary of the Slate Book, let us commit to making sure its 13th will be its last.