A perfect journal for anyone proud of their job who recognises they cannot perform magic! A pure and simple lined journal / notebook with a funny phrase on the front and all at a very low price for a decent gag gift. 6 x 9 in size 100 blank pages to deface as required Great eye catching cover. Buy one for your favorite co-worker, friend, husband, wife, partner or just about anyone who enjoys a good laugh and doesn't mind people knowing their official job title!
Perfect gift to show how much you love your job featuring 6x9' 110 lined pages for reflecting everyday, making to-do lists, recording prayer journal, motivation, or doodling the day away. The notebook has journal lines that is great for taking notes in class, making notes about your days, writing out your gratitude, or logging a book journal. Features: 6 x 9 page size 110 pages White colored paper Soft cover / paperback Matte finish cover This is a great unique gift idea under $10 for: Birthday Present Christmas present Going away present
Do you work an air traffic controller? This 6 x 9 inches blank lined paper notebook with 100 pages is designed for you and anyone who is a master in ensuring the safe and efficient movement of aircraft. A great birthday or holiday gift idea.
A perfect journal for anyone proud of their job who recognises they cannot perform magic! A pure and simple lined journal / notebook with a funny phrase on the front and all at a very low price for a decent gag gift. 6 x 9 in size 100 blank pages to deface as required Great eye catching cover. Buy one for your favorite co-worker, friend, husband, wife, partner or just about anyone who enjoys a good laugh and doesn't mind people knowing their official job title!
Roy Cushway was an Air Traffic Controller from 1953 through 1983. Most of this time was in Saskatoon, SK, which during those years was one of the busiest airports in Canada. There was a lot of Military traffic and it was also during the "Cold War" era. Saskatoon was the first Airport to get Radar Installed in Canada. Trainees came from all over the world to Saskatoon to learn the Air Traffic Control and Radar. Two years of his career he was in Goose Bay Labrador, which was considered isolation. Goose Bay handled all Oceanic Traffic.
Written by a retired air traffic controller, Air Cops: A Personal History of Air Traffic Control takes a closer look at this adrenaline pumping occupation. Author Billy D. Robbins draws on his experience in this profession to describe navigation systems, past and present. Robbins started his training as a military control tower operator in the U.S. Air Force in 1950. His first job began during the Korean War at the March Air Force Base in southern California. It was there that he learned the daily activities of running a control tower, not all of them pleasant. Boredom, coupled with spurts of intense stress, created a difficult working environment-one that not everyone could handle. Robbins, however, thrived on the life of an air traffic controller and continued in the aviation profession for the next forty years. From the tense moments of dealing with airplane hijackers in Florida to the introduction of automated computer systems, Robbins's research and experience produces a sometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic view of the air traffic control profession.
*THIS IS THE REPUBLISHED VERSION. THE ORIGINAL VERSION WAS PUBLISHED IN 1980. THIS VERSION DOES NOT CONTAIN NEW OR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. When was the last time you heard the name Air Traffic Controller? Most likely it was to berate him because his job action caused you to miss an important meeting. You may have been caught in a "by the book" slow down. Perhaps you spent an extra hour flying in endless circles awaiting clearance to land. There are far more to these delays than meets the eye. When negotiations between controller and government grind to a halt there is little that a controller can do. He is forbidden by law to strike. His only recourse is to slow the traffic. This they occasionally do in order to get better equipment, working conditions, and pay. This book, written by an active airline captain, will take you behind the scenes in the life of an air traffic controller. A person who guides the destiny of more people in one hour than an airline pilot does in a month, a person who controls all the departures and arrivals out of the three busiest airports in New York and does it with radar that isn't half as reliable as the radar used in a small country airport, a person who must think in three dimensions and be ready when their scope goes blank to remember name, position, heading and altitude of 18 aircrafts, a person who can never be allowed the luxury of a single mistake, a person who would rather control traffic than do anything else, in spite of the fears and anxieties that it entails. Hopefully after reading this book you will agree that all the glory and skill should not be confined to the cockpit, but shared equally by the men and women whose skill make a faulty system work. ********** "Captain Brian Power-Waters is intimately knowledgeable concerning the air traffic control system. As an airline captain, he brings the knowledge associated with his twenty-six years as a line pilot. Coupled with his close relationship with air traffic controllers for over twenty years, he is acutely aware of and acquainted with the problems of both professions. Captain Power-Waters provides us with a first time insight into the workings of the air traffic controller profession. The challenges and the many problems encountered in the current air traffic control system." John F.Leyden, President, Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization ********** "A fascinating--and sometimes hair raising--account of how the air traffic control system really works and what can be done to improve the situation. As an experienced airline pilot, Captain Power-Waters knows what he is talking about and lays the facts before the public. Anyone who travels by air should read this book." Con Hitchcock, Director of the Aviation Consumer Action Project and Aide to Ralph Nader Margin for Error was originally published in 1980, there are no new updates in this version.
