The Flick -- A term used by air traffic controllers to describe a mental model representing the current and future positions of air traffic in a section of airspace. Controllers visualize the paths of multiple aircraft in terms of position, altitude, trajectory and speed. Controllers also refer to this as "having the picture." But the picture moves -- like a movie -- hence the term “the flick.”
Thursday, September 09, 2010
Keeping Up?
I’m busy getting ready for the NATCA convention so I don’t have much time to write. I did have enough time to check in on David Pardo to see how he is doing.
FYI
”Read it again: an anonymous hotline at the FAA required its callers to leave their identifying information.”
Again, I can make no claims as to the validity of David’s claims. I don’t know him. I know nothing of his case.
I do know the FAA. I spent 25 years working for the Administration. I would love nothing better than to tell you what a fine, upstanding organization it is. And while it might make a mistake on occasion, the organization’s culture recognizes the errors of its ways quickly and makes all haste to rectify said errors.
But I can’t say that.
Don Brown
September 9, 2010
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Yep-
That's the one affectionate known as the "Career Suicide Hotline".
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