air traffic control
Gadgets

Are Cheap GPS Jammers Bringing Air Traffic Control Offline?

An investigation into malfunctioning GPS systems at Newark Liberty International Airport revealed that the culprit is the cheap jammers that are easy to buy online.

September 12, 2011
Online

Air Traffic Controller Posts Air Force One Flight Plan To Personal Blog

As we learned over at the New York Times today, if you were perusing the personal blogs of Japanese air traffic controllers in November you might have come across detailed flight plans for Air Force One. Oops!

May 10, 2011
Geek Out

Work Is Just A Game For Air Traffic Controllers

Air traffic control horror stories are popping up left and right these days, but few stories have a description as vividly nerdy as the one found in Mother Jones’ write up about the switchboard operators of the commercial flight world.

April 20, 2011
News

Air Traffic Controllers Nearly Blow Up Michelle Obama

America’s useless air traffic controllers screwed up again on Monday – except this “mistake” nearly led to Michelle Obama and her less-important colleague Jill Biden getting blown up in an aeroplane crash. Spoiler: They survived.

News

Air Traffic Controllers Go From Napping To Movie Watching

The Federal Aviation Administration, the country’s top federal agency for documenting instances of unauthorised nappy time, has yet another embarrassing incident on its hands. This time, the air traffic controller wasn’t asleep – he was just watching a terrible Samuel L. Jackson movie. (But not the one about the snakes on the plane. We were disappointed, too.)

April 18, 2011
News

Let Air Traffic Controllers Nap

In the wake of several high-profile incidents where air traffic controllers were caught falling asleep while working, the FAA has decided to change its work rules. But it still won’t allow controllers to take naps. Why not?

April 14, 2011
News

Air Traffic Controller Sleeps As Medical Plane Tries To Land

For the third time in almost as many weeks, reports have surfaced of an air traffic controller falling asleep at his post. This time, in Reno, a medical plane carrying a sick passenger had to land without tower assistance in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Something’s seriously wrong here.

April 8, 2011
Geek Out

Another Air Traffic Controller Falls Asleep, This Time On Purpose

An unnamed air traffic controller at Knoxville’s McGhee Tyson airport fell asleep for five hours during his night shift on Feb. 19, leaving seven aircraft to land without their primary officer. And he did it intentionally.

September 21, 2010
Gaming

The Insanely Complex, Kinda Addictive Air Traffic Control Game

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Having been a fan of Firemint’s Flight Control for sometime, I was intrigued when I caught a glimpse of indie title Air Traffic Control.

March 4, 2010
Cars

Luckiest Kid Alive Directs Air Traffic At JFK

On February 17, an air traffic controller let his little boy take the reigns for at least five transmissions to commercial jets at JFK International. This was terribly dangerous breach of protocol! And so totally awesome for the kid.

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