Austin Incident
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HenryTheAce
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Woooof! F’ing tower controllers… incompetent tower controllers am I right !? They’re all the same ?
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FightingIrish2012
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I think it was the SWA pilot’s fault. Took almost 90 seconds to roll after being told FDX was on a 3 mile final.
When the field is really hard ifr things slow down. Cleared for immediate are the magic words. But there might be a lot more to this story as well, it might be a serious personnel issue. Letting someone dangerously unqualified keep working despite having a pattern of egregious deals
HenryTheAce
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They can’t keep it rolling around the corner with RVR’s…
Raise when?
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covid cpc's, trainees who don't care and NTI's that push them through
Let's be honest... every facility has at least one "CPC" who sounds as dumb as that guy.
Technically he has 4 more hours to ATSAP it!
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This is typical for a level 7 departure. Where I’m at, you gotta anticipate any AWI or UAL is gonna take their sweet ass time. I always love the “…cleared for takeoff, can we sit for 60 secs? We’re finishing up our numbers…”
This is swiftly solved by a loud and obnoxious “GOOOOOOO AWI!!!” over frequency.
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At least the controller froze up, sat there in silence, and hoped it would work itself out while 200 people came about as close to death as you can come in 2 commercial planes.
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Omg I cannot wait to get a new sup
Did he do his cedar?
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kombucha23
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Haven’t seen the actual clip yet, but absolutely nuts it was allowed to get that close if the one trending on Twitter is accurate.
If FedEx was actually a three mile final, that was never gonna work.
If FedEx was actually a three mile final, that was never gonna work.
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Just ask it here
But_I_Had_Visual
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Kind of sounds like FedEx knew there was zero chance this was going to work (in hard IFR at least) and was planning for the go around.
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How many washouts did this dimwit have? How many ATSAPS filed? How many were in tower? How many did CruArt show were in tower? How many sups took early shoves? What is the culture at Austin? Was he vaxxed & double boosted? Has he been drug tested yet or naw? Who will be the hero to come forward with the facts!?
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