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Confessions of an Air Traffic Controller

Author : Danny Mortensen
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 164299913X
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an Air Traffic Controller written by Danny Mortensen and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An autobiography of a young impertinent FAA controller in the seventies culminating in the PATCO strike of 1981, and his subsequent adventures and exploits in aviation through the years. An entrepreneur, educator, author, radio talk show host, motivational speaker, master of ceremonies, aircraft builder, risk-taker and air race pilot, world record holder, corporate pilot, and airline instructor are just some of his unique accomplishments. With his involvement with Bill Phelps’ Airline Ground Schools as an instructor and later as president, Dan lead a premier cadre of retired airline captains responsible for the worldwide training of more than 59,000 pilots and aircraft dispatchers. His innovations in aviation education and training materials are admired by many. Danny earned the moniker Mr. Lucky after walking away from a 200 mph crash at the National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada, in 1983. His miraculous survival is attributed to the structural integrity of his Burt Rutan-designed AMSOIL Racer and the stronger-than-steel composite materials used in its construction. In 1990, he won the Gold at Reno and retired from pylon air racing after fifteen years of competition. Two of his race planes now hang in museums. Now retired, Danny reflects on his challenges, accomplishments, and some funny stories along the way.

Scuttlebutt

Author : Bill Henry
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Scuttlebutt written by Bill Henry and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his Vietnam draft notice arriving any day, Jess Harper joins the US Navy, only to see the peace talks signed soon thereafter. Air traffic control becomes the anchor that holds him true to course throughout a twenty-year career and thereafter. The harrowing air traffic control situations and life beyond ATC create his story. Both an east and west coast sailor, exploits begin in Orlando boot camp to Glynco, Georgia, for training. Life for this sailor travels on to Lemoore, California, Cubi Point, Philippines, New Orleans, USS Forrestal, Corpus Christi, Texas, Iraq-Kuwait border, and Troutdale, Oregon. Rule 1: Never let them take your independence.

Life with a View

Author : Robin A. Smith
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532023170
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Life with a View written by Robin A. Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wonder what it takes to become an air traffi c controller? Or how controllers make the whole complex system work? Life With a View is a memoir written by a former controller who uncovers all the secrets. Follow the author and get a look through the tower windows and behind the radar room doors. Robin Smith offers his unique translation of the second language learned and perfected by air traffic controllers and pilotsand no one else. He expounds on the humor controllers use to check emotions and conflicts and prevent the wheels from coming off. The author gives his readers an insiders look into a very small community comprised of dedicated professionals who chose a career field that is challenging in many ways. The complexity of this job is compounded exponentially when a controller is scheduled to work weekends, mid-watches, and holidayssometimes all in the same week.

Confessions of an Air Craft Pilot

Author : Terry Tozer
Publisher : Pen and Sword Aviation
ISBN 13 : 1399012053
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an Air Craft Pilot written by Terry Tozer and published by Pen and Sword Aviation. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a former commercial airline pilot and British Airways captain, a memoir about life in the cockpit, offering insider information about flight safety. How do you know if the airline you are planning to fly with is safe? What should you be worried about? Is it, Turbulence, lightning or that the pilots might be asleep while the aircraft flies on, on autopilot? Does a pilot’s life conform to the cliché; a life of foreign adventure with off duty hours spent by the pool in some tropical paradise surrounded by attractive members of the opposite sex? Or is it a life of commercial pressure to cut corners to keep the show on the road irrespective of the rules? Is it true that pilots have to jack up a seventy-ton aircraft themselves and change a wheel when they get a puncture? Ever wonder what really happened during the Concorde’s only crash? This and other mysteries of flight travel are analyzed by a twenty-year airline industry veteran and presented in a highly readable form. Terry Tozer gives readers cockpit view of a series of real flights. Some result in accidents and incidents that demonstrate what the priorities for good safety are. Others are experiences from the author’s own flying career in both passenger airline flying to long haul cargo, with its hidden world of global commerce, military operations and more. Finally, Tozer offers a suggestion that helps passengers easily choose safe airlines. Confessions of an Airline Pilot is an engrossing read from an industry insider, perfect for aviation buffs and anyone hoping to understand the real calculations that contribute to aviation safety.

Cockpit Confessions of an Airline Pilot

Author : Stephen G. Keshner
Publisher : Pelican Press
ISBN 13 : 9780967554099
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Cockpit Confessions of an Airline Pilot written by Stephen G. Keshner and published by Pelican Press. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stress is Relative

Author : Rose Marie Kern
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Stress is Relative written by Rose Marie Kern and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Rose became an air traffic controller in 1983 people meeting her immediately comment about how stressful her job is. But is it the job? Is it being a woman in a mostly male profession? Rose's memoir STRESS is Relative follows her career in ATC from the time she first heard about this challenging and lucrative job to the day she retired. Along the way readers get insights into the mysterious world of Air Traffic Control, and how attitudes towards women evolved over time. So how did she come to work in this challenging profession? In 1981 President Ronald Reagan fired 11,359 striking Air Traffic Controllers. It took 10 years to rebuild the workforce. The strike affected all levels of aviation and offered employment opportunities to many who had never before considered this as a profession. A struggling young single mother of two little girls, Rose Marie heard a report on the late night news about the strike and the government's ongoing efforts to rebuild. With no background in aviation she took a chance and entered a whole new world. Now one of the best known aviation authors in the U.S., Rose's experiences as she faced challenges both in the job and in the attitudes of an entrenched mostly male workforce in the 1980's makes for a story that is inspiring and amusing. In his review of the book, the editor of Fly-Low Magazine noted the book "shows the other side of ATC like no other person has." He goes on to say "This book would make a great movie!". Rose Marie Kern has worked in all three divisions of Air Traffic Control. She has won three national awards for her work with pilots and aviation computer engineers. She writes monthly columns for seven aviation publications. A member of the FAA Safety team, Rose Marie is a popular speaker for aviation groups nationwide. www.rosemariekern.com

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1524731765
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Air Cops

Author : Billy Robbins
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595393780
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Air Cops written by Billy Robbins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a retired air traffic controller, Air Cops: A Personal History of Air Traffic Control takes a closer look at this adrenaline pumping occupation. Author Billy D. Robbins draws on his experience in this profession to describe navigation systems, past and present. Robbins started his training as a military control tower operator in the U.S. Air Force in 1950. His first job began during the Korean War at the March Air Force Base in southern California. It was there that he learned the daily activities of running a control tower, not all of them pleasant. Boredom, coupled with spurts of intense stress, created a difficult working environment-one that not everyone could handle. Robbins, however, thrived on the life of an air traffic controller and continued in the aviation profession for the next forty years. From the tense moments of dealing with airplane hijackers in Florida to the introduction of automated computer systems, Robbins's research and experience produces a sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic view of the air traffic control profession.

Secrets from the Tower

Author : Bob Richards
Publisher : Ithaca Press (GB)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Secrets from the Tower written by Bob Richards and published by Ithaca Press (GB). This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful, rare and original look into the important world of a Chicago O'Hare air traffic controller. Secrets from the Tower is a terrific, thrilling, well-written, funny read, for its fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of an air traffic control tower, and will be enjoyable for anyone who's ever traveled by air. It's entertaining for its anecdotes, informative about air traffic, and also poignant, in terms of the life lessons the book delivers, and its tales of love and loss. Author Bob Richards gives the reader an inside look at the life of an air traffic controller at one of the world's busiest airports.

Aviation & Air Traffic Control

Author : Cecil Miller
Publisher : Mr.
ISBN 13 : 9781733561211
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Aviation & Air Traffic Control written by Cecil Miller and published by Mr.. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the history of aviation, aviators and behind-the-scenes life of air traffic controllers. It kicks off with the triumph of the Wright brothers, the early days of the airplane and manufacturing, the dawn of air traffic control and airmail, the war hero pilots, the test pilots, the experimental aircraft, the jet age, the century series aircraft, the first airlines, and the race to outer space Cecil Miller showcases his life in the Air Force. From 1955 to 1959, he was assigned in various locations; (1) in Edwards AFB, (2) in Indianapolis, Lansing, Kansas City International, Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) with the FAA, (3) in DC with the FAA Headquarters, and (4) returning to DFW. When Cecil retired from the Air Force, he became a contractor for the FAA and supported their needs. He also worked at the headquarters of the FAA and provided support for the air traffic control Futuristic Branch.

Cleared for Takeoff

Author : Potter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735694207
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book Cleared for Takeoff written by Potter and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short background on childhood and education, then detailed account of military and pilot experience leading to a full career with FAA's air traffic service

Confessions of an Air Craft Pilot: Including Tales from the Pilot's Seat

Author : Terry Tozer
Publisher : Pen & Sword Aviation
ISBN 13 : 9781399012041
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an Air Craft Pilot: Including Tales from the Pilot's Seat written by Terry Tozer and published by Pen & Sword Aviation. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you know if the airline you are planning to fly with is safe? What should you be worried about? Is it, Turbulence, lightning or that the pilots might be asleep while the aircraft flies on, on autopilot?Does a pilot's life conform to the cliché; a life of foreign adventure with off duty hours spent by the pool in some tropical paradise surrounded by attractive members of the opposite sex?Or is it a life of commercial pressure to cut corners to keep the show on the road irrespective of the rules?Surely it can't be true that the pilots have to jack up a 70 ton aircraft themselves and change a wheel when they get a puncture.Find out what really happened with the expert investigation into the only crash that Concorde had. This and other detective stories that puzzled investigators are analysed by the author and presented in a highly readable form.Your questions are answered by providing the reader with a fly in the cockpit view of a series of real flights. Some result in accidents and incidents that demonstrate what the priorities for good safety are. Others are experiences from the author's own flying career in both passenger airline flying to long haul cargo, with its hidden world of global commerce, military operations and more. Finally, the author offers a suggestion that would offer the passenger an easy way of choosing safe airlines; it could be the answer to equate choosing a flight with choosing other life altering purchases that are already in place.

Confessions and Memoirs of an Airline Pilot

Author : Enrique Horta
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 146784151X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Confessions and Memoirs of an Airline Pilot written by Enrique Horta and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-05-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Collision Course

Author : Joseph A. McCartin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199836795
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Collision Course written by Joseph A. McCartin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph A. McCartin writes, the strike was the culmination of two decades of escalating conflict between controllers and the government that stemmed from the high-pressure nature of the job and the controllers' inability to negotiate with their employer over vital issues. PATCO's fall not only ushered in a long period of labor decline; it also served as a harbinger of the campaign against public sector unions that now roils American politics. Now available in paperback, Collision Course sets the strike within a vivid panorama of the rise of the world's busiest air-traffic control system. It begins with an arresting account of the 1960 midair collision over New York that cost 134 lives and exposed the weaknesses of an overburdened system. Through the stories of controllers like Mike Rock and Jack Maher, who were galvanized into action by that disaster and went on to found PATCO, it describes the efforts of those who sought to make the airways safer and fought to win a secure place in the American middle class. It climaxes with the story of Reagan and the controllers, who surprisingly endorsed the Republican on the promise that he would address their grievances. That brief, fateful alliance triggered devastating miscalculations that changed America, forging patterns that still govern the nation's labor politics. Written with an eye for detail and a grasp of the vast consequences of the PATCO conflict for both air travel and America's working class, Collision Course is a stunning achievement.

Confessions of an Enterprise Architect

Author : Charles F. Bowman
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000915018
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of an Enterprise Architect written by Charles F. Bowman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-08-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book goes a long way toward raising the profile of the invaluable role enterprise architects play in major software initiatives. For this reason, I have confidence that if organizations take these insights to heart and leverage them effectively, they will begin to deliver consistent, real returns on their IT investments. Will this book make a difference? Time will tell, but my sense is that it very well can.—William M. Ulrich, President at Tactical Strategy Group, Inc. Confessions of an Enterprise Architect is the insider’s track on how to succeed as an enterprise architect despite the politics, budgets, setbacks, personnel issues, and technological challenges. It includes theoretical and pragmatic discussions about the discipline, imparts constructive recommendations born of personal experience, and presents a set of best practices for developing professional-caliber architectures that deliver professional-caliber systems. The book also features numerous ‘"Confessions," which are practical tips, warnings, and guidance from a practicing enterprise architect garnered over a career of independent practice. A sample of confessions includes: Accommodating change is the sole constant in the professional life of an enterprise architect Many enterprise architects don’t appreciate that their decisions not only affect system design but also impact the development environment and influence the structure of project teams In many cases, initial project estimates are so inaccurate that approvers would be better off developing their own assessments In many project teams, the user is the last consideration The insights contained in this book, typified by its "Confessions" and "Pro Tips," offer organizations a way forward with enterprise architecture. This book also explains how enterprise architects can engage senior business leaders as effectively and as fluently as engaging business analysts, developers, business professionals, program managers, and fellow architects. In addition, it demonstrates how to communicate sophisticated, leading-edge concepts in clean, simple ways that facilitate buy-in at every level. Most importantly, the book makes the case that a professional enterprise architect—and, by extension, a professional-caliber enterprise architecture—sets the foundation for continued success in an industry accustomed to failure.

Corridors in the Sky

Author : Robert S. Totman
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9780997952810
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book Corridors in the Sky written by Robert S. Totman and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Corridors in the Sky: Revelations of a New York 9/11 Air Traffic Controller" is an autobiography that is an insider s account of one of the most grievous tragedies in history: 9/11. As an FAA Air Traffic Controller, Robert S. Totman has the uncanny ability to direct air traffic across New York Center Airspace. But his life would be altered dramatically as he witnessed a hijacked plane disappear from the radarscope to collide into the Twin Towers. The search for and embracing of truth became factors that would help him heal and reclaim his life from the devastation caused by the tragic events. This is a story that will come across to most readers as an eye-opener, a startling revelation, and an irresistible inspiration. It is Robert S. Totman s story, but it is also the story of many people whose lives have been affected by tragedy, a story that mirrors and addresses the joys and fears, the hopes and difficulties of millions of people trying to find meaning in moments of adversity, and those struggling to rise above the rubble of life. The 9/11 events served as a catalyst that compelled the author to look at his life, and life in general, with honesty and to hear a voice inviting him to dig deeper. Robert s book could be entertaining, but it offers powerful insights and lessons for men and women who have been deeply hurt and in need of healing. The book can be read as an answer to the oft-neglected question: What does it take to rise after falling from the peak of success? In clear and beautiful prose, the author lays bare the secrets of his life and allows readers to find answers to the many questions they fear to ask. To say that this autobiography is stirring is an understatement. One thing is undeniable, Robert s story will undoubtedly move you."

Air Traffic Control

Author : Roy T Cushway
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460259890
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Air Traffic Control written by Roy T Cushway and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roy Cushway was an Air Traffic Controller from 1953 through 1983. Most of this time was in Saskatoon, SK, which during those years was one of the busiest airports in Canada. There was a lot of Military traffic and it was also during the "Cold War" era. Saskatoon was the first Airport to get Radar Installed in Canada. Trainees came from all over the world to Saskatoon to learn the Air Traffic Control and Radar. Two years of his career he was in Goose Bay Labrador, which was considered isolation. Goose Bay handled all Oceanic Traffic.