In the news is a suspended tower controller from Kennedy Airport. He brought his kids to work with him, one each of two days and let them issue take-off and frequency switch instructions. He and the supervisor at the time are now suspended. Should they be? I don't know the answer to that, but frankly I'm impressed with his son. He sounded as confident as any controller I've ever heard. The pilots obviously didn't sound upset. What do you think?
You can read the story and listen to the transmissions here.
I think the dad was right there telling the kid what to say.
ReplyDeleteIt didn't cause any problems but not really professional so a suspension is not that bad, at least he didn't get fired.
i agree with you, rich. that's pretty insightful of you.
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