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#827
#827
Tri-CitiesVol said:
Negative. What do you all have going on?

I think for the Chicago fire, they sent controllers to Indy.
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Stuff with frequencies. I just heard this morning that it’s unlikely. There was one supervisor making to sound like it was 100% going to happen.
 
#828
#828
ATC_VOL said:
Stuff with frequencies. I just heard this morning that it’s unlikely. There was one supervisor making to sound like it was 100% going to happen.
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Can’t trust a no-good supe.

ELVIS was having pretty frequent outages the last couple months. We’re dealing with the same stuff in a few areas. The technology seriously needs to be updated.
 
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#829
#829
So anyone surprised that the Air Force and the Trump administration went with Boeing for the F47? Given their recent issues and delays with the new AF1s.

 
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#832
#832
Tri-CitiesVol said:
@ATC_VOL

What do you think of Pickens? He’s who I am mainly making deals with down there.
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Dickens might be who you’re thinking of. He just moved to our area a month or so ago. Seems to be fine. Actually the only supe currently in the area so that explains why you deal with him a lot.

Did you happen to be flying into BNA on Saturday? I worked one of your birds.
 
#835
#835
ATC_VOL said:
I’m at Memphis Center. East part of the airspace over and around Nashville.
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Look for Delta 26 if you are working on April 4th. We should be thru your airspace around 18:30-19:00ish. I'll give you a shout out!

We are heading over on April 1, but don't takeoff until 23:30, and I am guessing you don't work the late night/early morning shift. But if by chance you are, it is DAL27 to ICN.
 
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#836
#836
SpaceCoastVol said:
Look for Delta 26 if you are working on April 4th. We should be thru your airspace around 18:30-19:00ish. I'll give you a shout out!

We are heading over on April 1, but don't takeoff until 23:30, and I am guessing you don't work the late night/early morning shift. But if by chance you are, it is DAL27 to ICN.
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I work 3 evenings and 2 day shifts right now, plus whatever OT I get. I probably won’t be in the area at either of those times but I’ll find out who is and hopefully get you a shortcut at least on the flight home, or just tell them Chugger owes you a shortcut and they’ll hopefully take care of you.

Very familiar with those two call signs and routes. Always fun watching a new trainee not look at the aircraft type and try to slow an A350 behind a 717.
 
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#837
#837
ATC_VOL said:
Dickens might be who you’re thinking of. He just moved to our area a month or so ago. Seems to be fine. Actually the only supe currently in the area so that explains why you deal with him a lot.

Did you happen to be flying into BNA on Saturday? I worked one of your birds.
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Definitely dickens lol. Pretty wild you all only have one supe. I think the least an area has in Indy is two. My area is very briefly at four, but will be back to three in a month. It’s the only way to move around anymore.

I flew Wednesday and Thursday this week. Looks like we had four helicopters flying Saturday, so doesn’t surprise me someone made a trip out west. If we can time it up on a day you’re working, I’ll do an approach into GLW.
 
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#838
#838
SpaceCoastVol said:
Look for Delta 26 if you are working on April 4th. We should be thru your airspace around 18:30-19:00ish. I'll give you a shout out!

We are heading over on April 1, but don't takeoff until 23:30, and I am guessing you don't work the late night/early morning shift. But if by chance you are, it is DAL27 to ICN.
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It may have been the winds, but we got Seoul and Tokyo through Indy Center in the vicinity of IIU today.

Big dog on the 350!!! Help me get an airline job haha.
 
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#839
#839
ATC_VOL said:
I work 3 evenings and 2 day shifts right now, plus whatever OT I get. I probably won’t be in the area at either of those times but I’ll find out who is and hopefully get you a shortcut at least on the flight home, or just tell them Chugger owes you a shortcut and they’ll hopefully take care of you.

Very familiar with those two call signs and routes. Always fun watching a new trainee not look at the aircraft type and try to slow an A350 behind a 717.
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LOL No kidding. Thanks in advance for the cut. :)
 
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#843
#843
Tri-CitiesVol said:
Definitely dickens lol. Pretty wild you all only have one supe. I think the least an area has in Indy is two. My area is very briefly at four, but will be back to three in a month. It’s the only way to move around anymore.

I flew Wednesday and Thursday this week. Looks like we had four helicopters flying Saturday, so doesn’t surprise me someone made a trip out west. If we can time it up on a day you’re working, I’ll do an approach into GLW.
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That’d be cool if you went into GLW.

We have one more training and one that’s on all mids. The other one just became an OM. So self made staffing shortage on their end haha.
 
#844
#844
ATC_VOL said:
I work 3 evenings and 2 day shifts right now, plus whatever OT I get. I probably won’t be in the area at either of those times but I’ll find out who is and hopefully get you a shortcut at least on the flight home, or just tell them Chugger owes you a shortcut and they’ll hopefully take care of you.

Very familiar with those two call signs and routes. Always fun watching a new trainee not look at the aircraft type and try to slow an A350 behind a 717.
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One of your guys told me that you asked him to give us a shortcut. I really appreciate that!!!!!!! We had just been looking at it and there was really nowhere to cut as our route to southern Alaska was pretty much a straight line.. I asked him for direct Incheon. He laughed and said um... yeah, naw. Thanks a bunch for the coordination though. That was awesome.
 
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#845
#845
Tri-CitiesVol said:
Wanting to do any corporate work or are you hanging it up?

How many of you guys own your own plane?
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I'm going to look into it, but it is gonna have to be the right job. I don't want to work 15-20 days/month. I might work the simulators which isn't by any stretch my dream, but it will cover insurance for my wife and its only 4-5 days/month. There are quite a few guys that own their own plane. I want to go down and get my sailplane rating and go soaring. I hear that is real flying. Lots of things to think about in the next chapter.
 
#846
#846
SpaceCoastVol said:
I'm going to look into it, but it is gonna have to be the right job. I don't want to work 15-20 days/month. I might work the simulators which isn't by any stretch my dream, but it will cover insurance for my wife and its only 4-5 days/month. There are quite a few guys that own their own plane. I want to go down and get my sailplane rating and go soaring. I hear that is real flying. Lots of things to think about in the next chapter.
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How did you get your start in aviation?
 
#847
#847
SpaceCoastVol said:
One of your guys told me that you asked him to give us a shortcut. I really appreciate that!!!!!!! We had just been looking at it and there was really nowhere to cut as our route to southern Alaska was pretty much a straight line.. I asked him for direct Incheon. He laughed and said um... yeah, naw. Thanks a bunch for the coordination though. That was awesome.
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I’m glad they did! I looked on flight aware and saw you were pretty straight anyway. Maybe next time.
 
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