A few links

Well, after stressing out over the Thursday night that lay before me, I ended up training at Albany D-side the whole night. This allowed me to ponder my soon-to-be-blogged next post about the progression of craziness we go through on a summer nightly basis.

I felt that I cheated the devil by not having to talk to airplanes on Thursday...

Then Friday happened. I will simply post some links to the always fabulous Flightaware.com so that you may feel fortunate you were not among the flying public that night. If you were flying that night...well, sorry.

The following flights were all supposed to land at NY's LaGuardia airport (LGA) sometime during the evening....

MEP228
TRS512
AAL744
AAL1684
CHQ3012
NWA538
TCF7588 (this one is good)
PDT4611(This one made it!)

Till next time...

DM

What's worse?

So, it's my Monday. I just made the mistake of going to the NWS website and looking at the map above. A warm front came through, bringing us a little hot air to mix with that cold front right behind it. Note the yellow circle of hell that says "Severe T'storms Possible". The northern 5/8ths of that circle is Area A. I then check the radar and the storms are already starting to build over SYR. Fantastic. There is still time to call in sick, but, I won't.

I just don't know what is worse:
1 - Working traffic on a night like this.
2 - Getting myself all worked up, sitting in my chair at home, knowing what is coming.

Oh well, maybe they'll reroute planes away from that yellow area....HA! RIGHT!!!!

Till next time...

DM

Just a tribute.

This is actually something that came about a week before we lost the late, great, OxiClean man himself. A few controllers in my area were throwing around ideas for this and we even considered attempting to procure an official voice over...

"ARE YOU HAVING TROUBLE SPACING YOUR FLOW? WELL, LOOK NO FURTHER. BILLY MAYS HERE FOR NEWARK METERING!!!

"THIS IS THE SOLUTION TO ALL YOUR PROBLEMS! YOU CAN DO IT ALL! TURN 'EM, CRANK 'EM, SLOW 'EM, SPIN 'EM. IT'S EASY!!! CALL NOW! A TMU SPECIALIST IS STANDING BY TO SWITCH TO IN-TRAIL!!!

"AND IF YOU CALL RIGHT NOW, WE'LL THROW IN PHILLY METERING AT NO EXTRA COST TO YOU!! JUST PAY SHIPPING AND HANDLING!!"

RIP Billy Mays.

Till next time...

DM / DU

PS I'd like to add that he would never have done this....becuase he only endorsed products he personally believed in. With that said, they are showing commericals on TV again, and I feel this is a fun way to remember Mr. Mays.

Summer time Part 2

Here is another sampling from my Delta friend taken in the middle of June between ATL and EWR and back.



Between the Nexrad display we're all used to on the evening news or the NWS, the tri-color display we have at the center, to the radar the pilots use (below) to weave thier way through the storms, I love getting the comparative perspective from the other side of the scope...

And this is just a nice picture.

Till next time...

DM