“Eight Hotel Romeo is descending, I’ve lost my cabin pressure.” The pilot of a Socata TBM-850 single-turboprop aircraft was flying north toward Burlington, Vt. Boston Center (ZBW) controller Casey Allan was conducting on-the-job training. But what […]
It was late on a Sunday afternoon, Sunday, March 21, 2021, and 15-year veteran Boston Center (ZBW) controller Casey Allan was conducting on-the-job training for fellow ZBW member Nick Schuler. With COVID-19 still gripping the nation […]
Matt Wyrick, who is in the sixth year of his FAA career, all at Indianapolis Center (ZID), grew up immersed in aviation. His father, Allan, was a longtime pilot for NetJets. Wyrick said hypoxia came up […]
In the late afternoon of June 16, 2020, Matt Wyrick was working in Area 6 of Indianapolis Center (ZID) when the controller-in-charge (CIC), fellow NATCA member Rachel Gilmore, was contacted by another area that they had […]
More than 225,000 aviation enthusiasts attended the six days of events last month at Sun ’n Fun Aerospace Expo in Lakeland, Fla., Florida’s largest annual convention of any kind. As the second-largest air show in the […]
Charlotte ATCT (CLT) FacRep Anthony Schifano and CLT legislative representative Stephen Cooper gave a tour of the new CLT tower and TRACON facilities earlier this month to a group of staffers of South Carolina Congressman Ralph […]