I got off work at midnight. It's too damn hot this time of year. You have a generator if you lose power?

No unfortunately not anymore. Our generator was included in the sale of our last property.

Rep for you. Do you ride?

I saw Le Tour de France in Dublin.

I stood on a bridge and a bunch of cyclists zoomed by. I saw Lance Armstrong I think.

Wasn't as thrilling as I had hoped. Then I went to the Clockwork Orange cafe.

after a big thunder storm and power surge and loss of power.

my heat pump is acting weird. damn

i cut the power to it hoping it would be a reset...lol

ok. heat pump is not working right

I dont like being stuck home on a sat night

With school, i'm a bit used to it. Writing a paper on ethics now.

frost: how was your trip? Did you check out Victoria?

ethics......ethics.....read this link.........lol

Cars and God, does he hate the Honda NSX? - The Landover Baptist Church Forums

read the beginning and end

Trip was great. Sure did make the trip to Victoria. The ferry was a little more than I would have liked, but the scenery was well worth it. That's one beautiful town. The legislature bld was worth it's weight in picture gold. There was a very gorgeous hotel as well. I want to say princess, or empress? Great call on making the trip.

Sucks being home on a Saturday night, but sucks even more when you are relaxing on a Saturday night at home and the power goes out for three hours.

"Americans who buy Japanese Cars should be forcibly transported to Canada."

rofl

that pissed me off

lol

I read a couple pages then the last few pages...how can people...WOW!

i'm disappointed...lol

Lol dreamer

I need nutjobs like that around so I look better by comparison.

Problem is they usually will just get banned so quickly.

lol frost......lol

Closed minded and blind fools!

Dad where you been at? You got a 370 yet?

^^What's the story with the Jefferson's avatar blue?

No idea. I just think the theme song is funny because there is a Hilter video for it. I dont think I was sober when I put this avatar up :ugh:

my heat pump is still struggling......hope my guy can fix it cause a new one equals to 4 F.I exhausts

anyone still up? too much red bull for me tonight sleep is not going to be an option. Anyways.. what's going on?

I am, I got off work at midnight. Pretty late one the east coast. :icon14:

LMAO, that's random. There's a Hitler video with that song?

Well my sleep schedule is unbelievably horrible I normally won't go to bed before 4am. Now with a little added dranks, I have no hope. Getting off at midnight ftl. What do you do if you don't mind me asking? If you don't want to say it's completely cool.

See my avatar...?

^ haha well played sir, sorry

Question that seems like a really interesting job, what schooling do you have to do and is it true it is ridiculously stressful? I could only imagine being in control of all that.

wow impressive, but I don't think that quite conveys it enough lol.

Ok next question the single worst experience I have had with flying. When being taxied to the runway a plane a good ways ahead of us took off through a flock of birds so we had to sit on the tarmac for I think an hour and a half while they cleaned the runway off. How often does this happen?

It is a really interesting job! Not every day is stressful though, but there are days where you really earn your pay.

There are a few ways to get in if you're really interested. You can join the military as a controller, and then when you get out you are qualified. You can go to college and get an aviation degree, which is what I did even though I was also in the USAF (weather man.) Or you can apply for a slot right off the street. There are certain rules of course as far as age, background checks, if you have any speech problems etc.

Here is a good site: NATCA | About NATCA | How to Become an Air Traffic Controller

Let me know if you have any questions.

There is no exact answer. Depeding where you are, the time of year, how busy the airport is etc will effect bird strikes. That must have been a huge flock of birds for the runway to be closed for that long. Most times a vehicle will go out on the runway and do a check for any airplane parts that may have fallen off, and then pick of the birds/pieces. They try and keep track of what kind of bird/s it was.

Good info thanks. Currently I'm in school for Finance, this has always intrigued me since I have flown a lot in my life. It always seemed to me to be the behind the scenes yet most important people, which I know it is now that I'm older, but that is why I always liked it. Just never knew what it took to become one.

I couldn't see the runway, it was a flight out of Philly that was already behind schedule, and I'm assuming since we were just being taxied and pretty far behind on the runway is why it took so long. Nothing went right that flight though, we had electrical problems before we left the gate, the bird flock, missed the connecting flight because of it, oh I'm just going to stop there it pains me to think about lol.

There's actually a good ATC school in PA. It was one of the first to offer the degree.

https://my.ccbc.edu/ics/Future_CCBC_...n_Sciences.jnz