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  • January 31, 2025 at 12:13 am
    Jeff Wahlen

    So precise. Spot on. Absolutely loved it.

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  • January 31, 2025 at 12:20 am
    eon

    There was a report in 2023 that enumerated the shortfalls in ATC hiring, training, and utilization.

    https://www.faa.gov/NAS_safety_review_team_report.pdf

    It carefully tap-danced around the hiring practices of the Biden Administration, simply saying that “diversity” was the ultimate goal.

    Interestingly, it did conclude that “recreational drug use” should not be a disqualifier for employment.

    Somehow, the idea of stoned air traffic controllers makes me want to stick to surface transport, permanently.

    clear ether

    eon

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    • February 2, 2025 at 6:43 pm
      markm

      “Somehow, the idea of stoned air traffic controllers makes me want to stick to surface transport, permanently.”

      By your “reasoning”, anyone who ever drank a beer will be drunk on the job now.

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  • January 31, 2025 at 12:38 am
    RHT447

    My go to guy for this kind of info.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3gD_lnBNu0

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    • January 31, 2025 at 1:33 am
      rickn8or

      Good info. Jibes with this that I found, with more detail on your part:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfgllf1L9_4

      But yeah, go ahead and blame Donald Trump. After all, he was only a kilometer or two away.

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      • January 31, 2025 at 2:09 am
        larryarnold

        And President Trump’s hiring freeze is less than a month old. It takes longer than that to train an ATC. Nobody who would have been hired if there wasn’t a freeze would have been in that, or any tower.

      • January 31, 2025 at 4:27 pm
        James/G

        I got another profile banned from the Devil’s Panties, probably for calling out the Author for her fascista actions on blocking people who point out the violence in American Politics is 95% DNC/PLD instigated. Anyhow, I pointed out that Trump’s not doing the Hiring Freeze would not have changed a thing about the crash occurring. I also pointed out that 3,000 people were turned away under Biden for ATC jobs because they were white.

        So I expect profile number three to be blocked by dinnertime.

      • February 2, 2025 at 11:22 am
        Oldarmourer

        I gave up reading DP years ago for pretty much the same thing, it used to be good but then the artist drank the koolaid and went woker than woke. When you start ranting about your readers’ opinions then act surprised that your readership went down, that’s not indicitive of a good grasp on reality.

    • January 31, 2025 at 9:24 am
      Mort

      Excellent report on the crash. Thanks.

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  • January 31, 2025 at 12:56 am
    William Henry

    Graduating 6th grade with third grade educational levels at the age of 18 makes you a intellectual genius in many big cities.

    As someone I know has said ( we should have hired the Irish and Chinese to pick cotton ).

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    • January 31, 2025 at 1:37 am
      rickn8or

      My family was poor as shit. We had to pick our own damn cotton.

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      • January 31, 2025 at 2:23 am
        JTC

        Much like almost all of the citizens of the Confederate States of America.

      • January 31, 2025 at 4:57 pm
        Landroll

        Same for my wife’s family. Me, I’m a carpetbagger/scalawag!:>))

    • January 31, 2025 at 7:15 am
      S'aaruuk

      Yeah….Just ask Jethro Bodine…..with his qualifications he’s been torn between becoming brain surgeon and a fry-cook!! :-p

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    • January 31, 2025 at 10:21 am
      The 300

      They tried that. Malaria killed the Irish off. That’s why a slave trade of malaria resistant black people developed.

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      • January 31, 2025 at 5:01 pm
        Landroll

        Yep! Them malaria resistant folk have a genetic tendency to sickle cell anemia. Trust the science they say.

  • January 31, 2025 at 2:11 am
    WayneM

    Such a horrible tragedy. Thoughts and prayers for the families.

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  • January 31, 2025 at 2:19 am
    Jim

    One report I saw said Reagan ATC has had only 19 of 30 spots filled for a long time

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  • January 31, 2025 at 2:30 am
    Blackrifle081

    Ronald Reagan did it right in ’80. Clean house , start over…. Military controllers at the big hubs until new hires could handle it, uncontrolled airspace everywhere else, see and be seen.

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  • January 31, 2025 at 2:31 am
    JTC

    Last time we had a prez with balls RR fired them all. Best course to do it again? Immediate reapplications based on merit.Balls are back; PDJT is the man

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  • January 31, 2025 at 3:26 am
    JohninMd.(HALP!)

    A friend of mine hired on for ATC after the Reagan house cleaning. They do NOT start noobs on busy, critical-approach towers like Reagan National, EVAH. You have to make your bones on smaller, simpler airports, and get promoted several times before they’ll trust you on a place like DCA….

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    • January 31, 2025 at 8:57 am
      John

      Which boils down to shorthanded inexperience in every critical job at the busiest airports in the country due entirely to DEI anti-white racism.

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  • January 31, 2025 at 5:32 am
    Tim Moyer

    I express shock as well at seeing this. I remember the CEO of Denver Airport being interviewed for the FAA Directorship back in ’23. I knew things were bad, I just didn’t realize HOW BAD they are right now. I think SKYNEWZ would get better ratings than CNN. Spot on with this one, Chris. https://www.denverpost.com/2023/03/01/senate-phil-washington-confirmation-hearing-faa/

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  • January 31, 2025 at 8:59 am
    Shooter 2.5

    I thought President Trump was wrong when he blamed DEI and as usual he was correct. The facts are there.

    Democrats have fatal flaws. They have opinions and as politicians they never need results. So they create problems, blame others, and never look at what monster they created.

    One said if you’re on the side of the majority,[democracy] make sure you’re not on the side of insanity.

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    • January 31, 2025 at 12:38 pm
      rickn8or

      One of the greatest mistakes in society is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
      ~ McGroarty for Freedom

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      • January 31, 2025 at 7:29 pm
        Browncoat57

        In the same vein…

        “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

        ― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)

  • January 31, 2025 at 10:28 am
    Mort

    It is apparent that in this world there
    are many distinctly opposite thoughts
    about most everything.

    Chris has endeavored in his long career
    of drawing and writing to be positive
    toward what could be considered good,
    and demeaning toward the ludicrous;
    of course good is different depending
    on who is looking.

    I think that 99.9999999 % of us agree
    that what is shown in these toons is
    a logical way to approach life in general.

    The Marxist influence which has infiltrated
    our country may be why so much insanity
    now is accepted by many as correct.

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    • January 31, 2025 at 7:30 pm
      Browncoat57

      Joe McCarthy was, evidently, correct.

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  • January 31, 2025 at 10:48 am
    cb ~
    • February 2, 2025 at 6:52 pm
      markm

      Interesting. Good thing we fixed the Blackhawk cables so walkie-talkie signals aren’t picked up by the cables and cause the helicopter to nose-dive anymore. And I hope they’ve been making sure the cables are still good, because that was nearly 40 years ago.

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  • January 31, 2025 at 1:19 pm
    The Grumpy Old Bald Guy

    Companies need to remove race and gender from applications, let people be rated on their qualifications first and foremost. Once all the qualified individuals have been racked and stacked interviews should be done. Starting with the most qualified. If that happens to be a white heterosexual male (WHM) then DEI be damned. It won’t happen because WHM’s are evil and everything bad is their fault, but we can always hope

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  • January 31, 2025 at 2:54 pm
    WayneM

    One of the pundits I follow reported the rotary wing was above their designated airspace ceiling. Supposedly the ceiling in the aerodrome is 200 ft and the rotary wing was at 375 ft.

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    • January 31, 2025 at 3:25 pm
      Kafiroon

      The “request visual separation” by PAT25 allows them to change what they deem necessary to clear the other aircraft. The killer was ATC changing CRJ to runway 33. Thus they changed where PAT 25 should have been looking and totally destroyed their separation of aircraft. RHT447, above shows this fairly clear. Again, it seems No one informed PAT25 of the course change for CRJ, which totally changed the air picture.

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      • February 1, 2025 at 1:46 am
        WayneM

        Brutal situation.

        And another crash today in Philly… medivac gone wrong…

  • January 31, 2025 at 4:34 pm
    James/G

    Okay, getting grim here, so happy trip to the past and then back to the present;

    https://www.daybydaycartoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/042916.jpg

    My place has three Smokers, one is a dinky one like that, but the *Other* Two, are the real deal. 500 and 1,000 gallon bad boys. And in a week more, the Raised Bed Garden will be up and filled with Basil, Dill and Tomatoes, maybe even Jalapenos. We also have toy ax throw and Cornhole games, and that bolo game now. I’m getting good on the axe throw…

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  • January 31, 2025 at 5:09 pm
    James/G
  • January 31, 2025 at 5:16 pm
    oldfarmer

    idiocracy was a movie, not an instruction manual

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    • February 1, 2025 at 5:08 am
      Henry

      I thought it was just an overly long a for Crocs.
      Seems to have worked, though.

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      • February 1, 2025 at 5:08 am
        Henry

        “long AD…”

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