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25 Facts about Air Traffic Control
People often wonder about our job, well here are some facts to make it easier to understand:

1. The controller is never wrong. Even if he is, he is not.
2. When working in ATC long enough, you become a master at covering up your mistakes.
3. Pilots often act like little children who can't have their favorite toy.
4. A pilot who thinks decreases the flow of traffic.
5. Your neighbors usually think you are unemployed.
6. Sexy voices don't necessarily account for sexy pilots.
7. A good controller feels like he's getting paid a lotta money for nothing--a bad controller feels like he's totally underpaid for saving lives everyday.
8. A cockpit window offers a better overview of all airport traffic than your control tower.
9. The toughest working position in a tower is start up/clearance delivery--during runway closures! It feels like a daycare job. (See Nr. 3)
10. It never stops to amaze you what can go wrong.
11. If you go out of your way to make a flight meet his slot, the pilots usually thank each other for waiting.
12. The hardest part about your job is the drive home with so many idiots on the road who just don't see the picture.
13. Your favorite question becomes "Any reason for the delay?" The best response is "Controllers amusement" (Thanks for that one, Scott!)
14. Controllers are very responsible people-but only at work!
15. You're always the best controller working at the busiest airport.
16. The radar guys think airplanes disappear after handover.
17. Female controllers must be tough to survive in our world - or pretty.
18. Your colleagues always tease you. When they stop, something is seriously wrong with you.
19. Most controllers hate offices and paperwork--some controllers see them as a way out.
20. The last thing you can handle after a busy day is your wife talking back to you and there's no recording of who said what.
21. Sometimes you wonder where the pilots hide their "immediate take-off checklist".
22. When you're home, you don't think about work. When you do, start worrying!
23. "Runway vacated" is a very flexible term, depending on the airline.
24. The best part about nightshift is driving home when everybody is driving to work.
25. When you think you're the best--that's the time to start being careful!

Très belle et très lucide leçon...d'autodérision....et d'humour

Le meilleur:

20. The last thing you can handle after a busy day is your wife talking back to you and there's no recording of who said what.

Haha!! Le mec qui a dit ca ne savait pas qu'elle enregistre tout, sachant qu'il y aura une enquete.
Elle te donne 15 jours; apres, tout est efface.

Effacement après 15 jours ?
C'est de la publicité mensongère !!
Ma femme se souvient de choses que je lui ai dites il y a 20 ans et dont je ne garde aucun souvenir.
Etait-ce moi, d'ailleurs ?

Etait-ce vraiment ta femme ?

La mémoire sélective féminine à long terme : C'est un problème récurrent que j'ai découvert depuis très longtemps. J'ai trouvé une solution radicale qui efface toute la mémoire, enfin qui me permet de ne plus être pris en défaut sur quelque chose que j'ai pu dire ou faire des années auparavant ...... Je change régulièrement de femme

Luc Lion a écrit :Effacement après 15 jours ?
C'est de la publicité mensongère !!
Ma femme se souvient de choses que je lui ai dites il y a 20 ans et dont je ne garde aucun souvenir.
Etait-ce moi, d'ailleurs ?

Comme ATC ici, les enregistrements sont effaces apres 15 jours, donc faut lancer
l'enquete assez rapidement..
Mais la memoire , pas pareil!! Ca ne s'efface pas, mais ca ne correspond pas toujours a
la realite! (memoire feminine ou masculine)
La solution de Helico n'est pas trop bete..un peu cher, maybe.