When I was stationed in the middle of nowhere rural as hell Whidbey Island, Washington, Seattle was the only place my wife and I felt at home in the entire state. If you love rural america, everywhere else in Washington probably is great. If you need that city life like we did, Seattle is perfect for you. It's one of the few colder climate cities I'd love to live in.
Must be nice. “Good ol Country folk” in Walmart tried to harass my mother in law for using her carribbean accent on her cell phone when she came to visit us.
Very. But all I’m saying is while it is sensible for anyone coming into the FAA to accept that their first facility will probably be somewhere they don’t plan to stay at, it is irresponsible, and naive, to expect that everyone wants to be out in good old boy middle america, especially in those communities that may not reflect the new controller.
Agreed. Sorry to hear that. I am not much of a country person myself. On the off chance I ever get sent to the academy and IF I "pass" by the skin of my teeth and given options like Shreveport Louisiana , Monroe Louisiana, or Jackson Mississippi, I reckon I will choose the best staffed facility and get the hell over it. Get your cowboy boots and hats while they're on sell?
It’s a crap shoot really. When I got to my current facility people were stepping over each other and staffing was great. Fast forward a few years and its 12 month release dates and people have 150-300 hours of overtime already for the year
Roger, so the staffing at these facilities are extremely flexible/volatile? Is there no good/reliable way to check staffing? Doesn't MJ and Stinger keep up with that information or is it just a guessing game? Also, outside of staffing, the only other factor I should be concerned with is training time/environment?
Huh? I must have missed a reference somewhere...
IF you're talking about what I think you're talking about, current facility staffing levels can be found under the resources tab at the top of the page.
I guess the point I was trying to make is that. yeah you can keep up with staffing levels but that doesn’t give you an accurate idea of how long you’ll be there. There could be a bunch of people who just got checked out and are also trying to leave so by the time you get there staffing won’t be so good anymore and you may be there longer than you anticipate.
Pasco is nowhere near Vancouver
Maybe he means Vancouver Washington
This is the dumbest argument in the history of dumb arguments. You can fly (travel) almost anywhere from anywhere in 5 hours and 42 minutes. There are 700 cities within a 6 hour drive from each other on the east coast. Pick Florence it's only a few hours for Charlotte and a 45 minute flight from D.C...
