General Discussion

My source says it is way, way, beyond stressful currently. They are only supposed to work so many hours, so many days, have MANDATORY breaks during their shifts, etc. All of which has gone out the window to keep up with the huge amount of passenger aircraft and freight aircraft flying in the air...due to the shortage.

Apparently, the Air Traffic Controllers/Towers for the Military are totally separate/independent from the U.S. Government ATC.......Different navigation systems, Different landing "systems" and "procedures", Different radio channels, different controllers, etc etc

You would think that the military aircraft would be under the control U.S. ATC, at least coordinated, especially when operating in densely congested air space here in U.S.???? in order to avoid nightmares like last night......

We live near Buckley air base in Aurora. They have two F something or others, fully armed on standby at all time after 9/11.
Every week or two, they are "scrambled" due to some airline deviating from normal..... We live about 5-10 miles from the base. When they take off, most of the time they come right over our house, at maybe less than 1000??? feet, with a really high noise level, appearing to be going wherever they please. If they have their "after-burners" on, the noise is deafening, rattling windows. My source says they are supposed to adhere to certain flight paths when taking off, etc, but they seem to sometimes ignore that, making things crazy for the Civilian ATC.....

(I gotta tell you MCE, that if true, it is utterly disgusting to me that Trump is blaming the crash on the "Diversity employment" factor this morning according to NBC).....

At any rate, the complete FAA/NTSB final report on the cause of the crash will be issued two? years from now, long forgotten, except by families and friends of the deceased.........Any information re: the crash, prior to that, is just speculation.........