I've been following her articles for a year or so, but I recently stopped checking her site because the articles are so few and far between now. They used to come very regularly. I'm glad she's still making new ones. The last one about egyptair was months ago. So I wasn't sure if she'd stopped or something.
I guess she's either not got much material left to write about or she's busy with other work. But I'm always happy to read new stuff <3 and it's worth waiting for.
Ps it might be a bit of a morbid interest but I fly myself and I get really interesting insights from it. I only fly small stuff but still.
Ps2 this is the second B17 crash she's written about. There's not a lot of them left now in flyable condition :'(
"Thanks for your patience in waiting for this article! After publishing my piece on EgyptAir 804 in December, I moved half way across the country in a long, messy relocation process fraught with other struggles along the way. But here I am, and here it is. Thank you!"
Ah thanks I didn't see that. Also didn't know she had a podcast as well (I don't listen to podcasts anyway so it wasn't on my radar). I did notice the articles getting longer and better though. Makes sense!
I didn't realise this was her job, I thought it was more of a side thing.
>and two “scanners.” The purpose of the scanners was to stand by the B-17’s rear doors and keep lookout for other aircraft
I spoke to one of the CAF "scanners" when the B29 "FiFi" visited nearby and he said one of their roles was to watch for smoke in case one of the engines caught fire. The engines are "upgrades" from just after the war.
A really sad tale, but amazingly depressing that you can work as an ATC for arguably the most difficult forms of civil aviation, with no planning, aids, or procedures -- all without qualifications.
> but amazingly depressing that you can work as an ATC for arguably the most difficult forms of civil aviation, with no planning, aids, or procedures -- all without qualifications.
Your wording is ambiguous to me.
Are you talking about the “air boss” here?
ATCs get plenty of training and are qualified — several months of training plus 2-3 years of additional classroom work and OJT. Fairly high attrition rate as well (iirc).
I believe they meant that the air boss has a role like an ATC, in a more challenging situation (because you want to keep aircraft somewhat close). Whilst at the same time the air boss doesn't need anywhere near the same training as ATCs do.
Yeah unscripted low-altitude aviation control is something a JTAC would do in combat. This is such a high-risk way to manage aircraft over a crowd of civilians, it's shocking to hear this is normalized.
Also i don’t really understand why does it need to be improvised. The audience wants to see roaring airplanes flying by. I understand that. But why can’t the paths be pre-agreed?
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I've been following her articles for a year or so, but I recently stopped checking her site because the articles are so few and far between now. They used to come very regularly. I'm glad she's still making new ones. The last one about egyptair was months ago. So I wasn't sure if she'd stopped or something.
I guess she's either not got much material left to write about or she's busy with other work. But I'm always happy to read new stuff <3 and it's worth waiting for.
Ps it might be a bit of a morbid interest but I fly myself and I get really interesting insights from it. I only fly small stuff but still.
Ps2 this is the second B17 crash she's written about. There's not a lot of them left now in flyable condition :'(
Definitely worth subscribing to email updates!
"Thanks for your patience in waiting for this article! After publishing my piece on EgyptAir 804 in December, I moved half way across the country in a long, messy relocation process fraught with other struggles along the way. But here I am, and here it is. Thank you!"
I didn't realise this was her job, I thought it was more of a side thing.
I spoke to one of the CAF "scanners" when the B29 "FiFi" visited nearby and he said one of their roles was to watch for smoke in case one of the engines caught fire. The engines are "upgrades" from just after the war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFI_(aircraft)
Your wording is ambiguous to me.
Are you talking about the “air boss” here?
ATCs get plenty of training and are qualified — several months of training plus 2-3 years of additional classroom work and OJT. Fairly high attrition rate as well (iirc).
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"Untrained musician directing an unrehearsed piece" is not even how orchestras work.