"Dr. Anthony J. Lomenzo" wrote:

Chip Jones wrote:

"Dr. Anthony J. Lomenzo" wrote in message
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Note to Chip! Chip, your name rings a bell...didn't you have a rather
elaborate ATC website { I could have the wrong person but your sector
mention after your name [ZTL] rings a bell ... as well as a secondary
website dealing with flight safety [read: crash] investigation issues?

Not me. :-)


Naturally instead of my doing the legwork first and digging it up, I
relied on memory [faulty in this case..] and sure enough, wrong person,
this person was out of Chicago and not the Atlanta region. Besides the
real-deal [and like others here who duly hold FAA tickets, presently or
back when...] I enjoy the flight sims inclusive of ATC sims. My comments
as to the adjunctive value of flight sims to the real deal is fairly
well known and I was/am one of those who tend to get away from the 'it's
a game' theme or mind-set of flight sims and prefer, if you will, the
flight sims as an adjunctive learning tool to the real McCoy...the
limitations [big bucks motion sims] notwithstanding.

It struck me however that not only are flight sims utilized by the
commercial folks and Uncle Sam [et al] to boot in an adjunctive capacity
but for some 12 to 16 weeks of initial professional ATC training, ATC
folks go to Oklahoma City [so I've read anyway] and use Doc Wesson's ATC
'SIMULATION' programs for their initial professional training.

In any event, I emailed this controller and he had an excellent website
tutorial on real-deal ATC and I recall commenting that I personally
would not want that kind of daily pressure cooker responsibility or
nightmares about 'deals' and making instant judgment calls in an often
hectic ['chaotic' atmosphere perhaps at some of the larger airports]
atmosphere that can effect so many lives. I daresay that the ATC
brethren perhaps have a high incidence, inter alia, of stomach ulcers!
Whew! I respect their profession and give them much credit but it's a
profession that I personally would not want to perform. I'll leave the
manipulation(s) of those separation issues and emergency actions or the
proverbial "string of pearls" goal to those professionals who can do it
and do it well. But, bottom line, I'm sure glad they are there!

Doc Tony


ADDENDUM....

I suppose I should add a qualifier here lest I get an email to the tune
of 'Hey, Doc, flying, be it a 152 or a Trip' 7 is 'responsibility',
yes?' and most assuredly true enough but please note that in my comments
about ATC the operative words were 'daily pressure' and that is the part
that I would just as soon do without in terms of such 'daily' pressures
being the means of my livelihood.

Explains too, no doubt, why I'm not a commercial ATP pilot by
profession although I'll say this and recognizing that both carry an
enormous amount of responsibility : If I had the proverbial magic wand
and could wave same and thus have the requisite savvy and experience for
'either' the ATP ticket and gig --versus-- an ATC controller at a
'major' hub, I'd probably choose the ATP ticket because [I'll no doubt
hear about this! :-( ...] given the choice between flight management
monitoring once at cruise altitude with a Triple 7 --versus-- sitting in
the hot seat at 24/7 JFK, LAX, ATL and the other pressure cooker TRACONS
and related ATC heavy traffic get-it-done assignments, I'd take the
flight deck of a Jumbo or Triple 7. I mean you can get 'some' break and
there is the right seat FO to boot! But ATC every day with NO mandated
FAA time-off/no-fly regs [for the ATP], nahhhhh.

Doc Tony


Chip, ZTL

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