How long before /G required for IFR?

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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:58:46 GMT, "Chip Jones"
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Far more likely you swivel-heads will get the few AFSS guys who actually
are
qualified controllers. Ironic, too, in a twisted FAA way.. After all,
the
69 Level 2-3 VFR towers will be the next part of the NAS auctioned off
to
the low bidder, followed by Level-Three up-down terminal facilities.
Those
few AFSS people who get picked up in air traffic will be job-hunting
again
in about five years, along with a whole bunch of terminal 2152's. Serco
or
Lockmart is headed your way right around 2010 or so.

Chip, ZTL


Boy, would I love to read this translated into English.

Talkdon't you Newspeak? Doubleplus ungood.

C.f. also the opening of Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" set about 50 years
in the future, when there is a completely separate language spoken only by
taxi drivers.

My WAG translation (IANAATC):

Swivelheads = tower controllers (always turning their head to see airplanes
unlike a scope controller)
Level 2-3 VFR towers are low-traffic (non-radar?) federal towers
Level 3 up-down are lower-traffic app/dep control feeders
Terminal 2152s? Lost me there. Lower qualification level maybe?
Lockmart = Lockheed Martin (aka Lockmar)
ZTL = Atlanta Center (iirc)

-cwk.