Fair enough! I think I would probably be one of those if I could ever get in. I wasn't kidding when I said I would love Duluth.Some people are perfectly happy at their level 4-7s. Everyone has a different agenda.
Fair enough! I think I would probably be one of those if I could ever get in. I wasn't kidding when I said I would love Duluth.Some people are perfectly happy at their level 4-7s. Everyone has a different agenda.
That’s what was “proposed” as the solution when it came to transfers: Start low, then transfer middle, and then end high.I wonder how much of that is caused by people going from the facilities that can release which are disproportionately lower level and going right into a busy 11 or 12 because they are trying to chase the paycheck. A more realistic progression would be going from a low level tower to a mid level facility with radar and then from there going into one of the upper level facilities with some experience. but the system doesn’t really allow for that, if you only have one shot you might as well Aim as high as you possibly can, since it’s difficult to predict when your facility might be able to release again.
That’s what was “proposed” as the solution when it came to transfers: Start low, then transfer middle, and then end high.
As history has shown, that has not, and will never now, be the case.
The problem has and always will be the refusal to hire locally.
yah I’m saying that system doesn’t work. If the atm going to the local community college or high school I’m sure they can get 10 blokes to sign up.100% agreed
Yes, but remember the agency doesn't have a problem getting applicants (they generally get 2-3 times the actual workforce every time they put out a bid for OTS) - so until everyone stops claiming they're willing to move all around the country, this is what we get.
and that’s just it. You might really want to go to Duluth, but if your facility only can release one and someOne else bids EWR or ZFW your odds of that 1 person being you goes to about zero, if you have to wait until round 2.Are you forgetting about the level 9 and below 100% rule? the KSN list is super misleading in the fact that - if conditions are met, lower level facilities can staff to 100% projected (I'd have to log in and look up the exact wording, it's been a while since I completed my ERR to my level 4 tower) but large and by the low level facilities can show 0 for possible gains and still pick up in "round 2."
EDIT obviously getting released from your current facility is a beast of it own.
name me one level 5 facility that at CPC makes 60ish k a year......
As someone who isn't even in the academy, this isn't the first time this has been discussed right? What can the average person do? Just bring it up to their rep repeatedly till something happens?
then we have the agency in their infinite wisdom sending prior military hires to desirable level 10s. Makes sense. not.
Some people are perfectly happy at their level 4-7s. Everyone has a different agenda.
When I was at Level 5 STT(now a 4) I was making north of $85k.....
Woof.So I have been working on compiling data that has yet to be centralized in a way that is useful with regards to NCEPT. We all hear rumors and hearsay, but I thought I would look into what are the real spots that suck people in. I've gone through all the panels and centralized how many people have been released from where. I am working on the places they have been released to, but this is a good start. I will release my .XLS when its done, but for now the data is sobering. Numbers all from the latest PPT on here. Some make sense, like no one really wants to leave SFB or MRI, those are sweet spots and you make good money with locality etc.
These are the places below a level 10/11/12 that have only released "1 or None". I left out the 15 x 10/11/12's that meet the same criteria because for most people that is a career goal. Overall there are 51 facilities that are in this "club" if you count all levels. If there are errors, they are mine alone. I am still QCing the data to make sure I got it right. Like for some reason I thought EVV and SHV had released people. I went through 17 panels, if there are more, let me know. I got all the panel info from the pdfs in resources section posted here.
level ID Name Releases years avg training facility staff % training success % 6 ALB Albany Tower 0 2.50 82.1% 67.6%5 BIS Bismarck TRACAB 0 1.65 61.5% 100.0%5 DLH Duluth Tower 0 2.49 90.0% 66.7%5 EVV Evansville Tower 0 1.56 82.4% 57.9%6 FAY Fayetteville Tower 0 2.12 54.5% 65.4%5 GTF Great Falls Tower 0 1.92 76.5% 72.4%5 HUF Terre Haute Tower 0 2.05 82.4% 77.3%8 ICT Wichita Tower 0 2.86 83.3% 77.8%9 JAX Jacksonville Tower 0 1.96 72.3% 50.9%5 MLI Moline Quad City Tower 0 1.89 80.0% 74.2%6 MWH Grant County Tower 0 1.72 73.3% 68.8%5 ROW Roswell Tower 0 1.85 66.7% 81.0%6 SHV Shreveport Tower 0 1.93 61.5% 96.0%5 TRI Tri-Cities Tower 0 2.11 82.4% 61.1%9 ZSU San Juan 0 2.47 61.3% 67.5%6 ACY Atlantic City Tower 1 2.34 92.3% 75.0%5 AGS Augusta Tower 1 2.36 73.3% 85.7%6 AMA Amarillo Tower 1 2.26 86.4% 71.4%5 ARB Ann Arbor Tower 1 0.93 88.9% 83.0%9 CVG Cincinnati Tower 1 1.64 76.7% 83.3%7 GEG Spokane Tower 1 1.75 92.9% 73.1%6 GGG Longview Tower 1 2.31 86.4% 61.9%7 GSO Greensboro Tower 1 1.70 92.3% 58.3%7 HPN Westchester Tower 1 2.86 86.7% 83.3%8 JCF Joshua TRACON 1 1.51 87.5% 82.8%8 MCI Kansas City International Tower 1 1.33 84.6% 88.5%6 MRI Merrill Tower 1 0.57 109.1% 100.0%9 MSY Moiusantt Tower 1 1.11 72.2% 86.4%8 OKC Oklahoma City Tower 1 1.83 63.3% 73.9%6 PTK Pontiac Tower 1 0.93 72.7% 81.0%9 SAT San Antonio Tower 1 1.89 84.4% 87.5%7 SBN South Bend Tower 1 2.10 65.4% 75.0%8 SDF Standiford Tower 1 2.20 85.1% 81.5%9 SFB Sanford Tower 1 0.60 100.0% 89.5%5 SUX Sioux Gateway Tower 1 2.01 80.0% 86.7%6 TUS Tucson Tower 1 0.96 82.4% 69.6%8 Y90 Yankee TRACON 1 2.04 59.1% 65.0%
So the big question is, what do we do about it? How do we fix it? How do we give people hope? I would be very curious to see the number of supe deviations from these places.
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yah I’m saying that system doesn’t work.
I worked with a guy who was at EVV. He washed out after 2 years.. it’s a 5 UP/Down with a 58% success rate. That place is no bueno.
Aviation background, no reason he shouldn’t have checked out there.. that’s according to him. But I trained him at my last facility and thought he was a decent controller. He told me the relationship between mgmt and NATCA is toxic, and just a lot of pissed off controllers.. and that shit rolled down hill onto trainees.what was his background? Sounds like the facility has a culture problem or the got a lot of the same type of new hires.
I have heard really bad things about their ATM. Like “how does this person have a job” bad.Woof.
you couldn’t pay me $150k a year base to go to 85% of these facilities... a lot of them are black holes, whether it’s a mgmt/culture/training issue. Which, directly impact their ability to release people.
I.E. I worked with a guy who was at EVV. He washed out after 2 years.. it’s a 5 UP/Down with a 58% success rate. That place is no bueno.
I have heard really bad things about their ATM. Like “how does this person have a job” bad.
Obligatory reminder the agency doesn’t give a rats ass about you, your life, your wife, kids, or anything else besides you coming to work and talking to airplanes.
I didn’t say it was right, but it ain’t gonna change.
Obviously it doesn’t work cus they can’t ever get any of these places staffed. You don’t think they can find 50 people that already live in San Juan?it doesn’t work for you. It works for the FAA however, which never has a shortage of bodies coming in the door.
Obligatory reminder the agency doesn’t give a rats ass about you, your life, your wife, kids, or anything else besides you coming to work and talking to airplanes.
I didn’t say it was right, but it ain’t gonna change.
what was his background? Sounds like the facility has a culture problem or the got a lot of the same type of new hires.
You never know, central IL (and the others) might still appeal to a few people.how many people really want to spend their lives at a level 4 in BFE central Illinois, or BFE central Washington, or even Michigan?
Throwing money at the problem is not the answer. Look at n90.