With all the reports in recent months about aircraft being directed to use the same runway at the same time, and other near-tragedies, I thought it might be worthwhile to allow Bob Newhart to remind us of the challenges facing air traffic controllers.
I don't know whether this qualifies or not as the lighter side of air travel, but we can always use a smile or two.
Peter
3 comments:
Funny guy, Bob Newhart is missed. How he kept a straight face while relaying this to his audience - must have taken a lot of practice.
My Dad was an en-route Air Traffic Controller. He let me and my brother come to work with him on a mid shift (this was the 70's and I doubt they allow it these days). I Loved that time, but after a few hours of watching screens and hearing the pilots and the controllers talk, we retired to the break room and napped the last half. He Retired in the mid-eighties.
I spent some time in towers and RAPCON in the 80s. Newhart is closer to reality than you might be comfortable with. Then there was the night in RAPCON hearing some flight over a speaker plaintively calling for "Holloman COntrol" as all the controllers were sleeping. The Captain over ATC ops (I was Maintenance) was real unhappy with me when I reported it up the chain.
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