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News / Re: Boston (ZBW) has a New ATM!
« on: August 12, 2018, 02:01:15 PM »
Congrats Ian!
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USA Division Updates / Re: Thank you for the opportunity to have served you!
« on: February 02, 2018, 07:48:31 PM »
Thanks Don!!
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News / Re: Houston has a new TA!
« on: January 31, 2018, 03:43:55 PM »
Thanks everyone! I'm looking forward to the new role!
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News / Re: New Deputy Division Director VATUSA announcement
« on: January 24, 2018, 07:24:45 PM »
Congrats, Tony!
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Events / Re: Bring Don Home! [25 FEB 2359-0400z]
« on: January 08, 2018, 03:38:07 PM »let see of we can get you to do at least one holding pattern at every VOR along your route ..
Everyone file direct, got it!
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News / Re: New Division Director
« on: January 04, 2018, 03:41:40 PM »
Congratulations, Mark! This is excellent news!
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The Control Room Floor / Re: Visual approach phraseology
« on: January 02, 2018, 01:33:56 AM »Same as I use with traffic calls! There's little to no ambiguity there versus "we have the traffic."
Same but I follow it up with "traffic in sight" versus "we have the traffic" to ditch all the ambiguity.
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Come Fly With Me / Re: Going to Back To Houston
« on: December 31, 2017, 12:59:48 PM »While it was a long one -- most of us were on for 5.5 hours -- it was a fun one. Toronto sent us a large volume of traffic, and the addition of everybody else that hopped on to the arrival train made for an exciting evening. It almost felt like an FNO at some points. We had great facilities feeding us (ZFW and ZME especially, our direct neighbors in the flow), so it was a smooth evening all around.
It certainly was fun! From a finals perspective, it felt like we had a pretty steady flow of arrivals with many friendly and accommodating pilots, particularly when we have to shove them off to the far runway (26R) with fairly little notice in IMC none the less.
The controllers all around did a great job. The spacing on my end looked great and we had very few delays or penalty vectoring from what seemed like an excellent turnout!
Thanks for the great work and good times from all the controllers and pilots that took part in this one! I must admit, I was ready for a long overdue break after that session!
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General Discussion / Re: Thank you, veterans!
« on: November 11, 2017, 10:22:13 AM »
Well said. Thank you for your service, Don!
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News / Re: Houston has a new Air Traffic Manager!
« on: October 11, 2017, 11:02:27 AM »
Congratulations Matt! I look forward to working with you in your new role.
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News / Re: Fort Worth has a new Air Traffic Manager!
« on: October 10, 2017, 08:11:06 AM »
Congratulations, John!
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The Classroom (Controller Tips) / Re: Responding to Guidance
« on: September 07, 2017, 03:21:57 PM »That's the point of this thread.
Receiving constructive criticism? I could not agree more.
I just would not chastise them because they were an "instructor". VATSIM training can sometimes be familiarization at best and it sounds like it may have been a good teachable moment for them for when they are controlling/instructing.
In the interest of constructive criticism, myself and others just brought up a few other points.