Re: Air Traffic Safety So Bad Its Classified

On Oct 22, 1:28 pm, "Patriot Games" <Patr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Citizen Jimserac" <Jimse...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Oct 22, 7:44 am, "Patriot Games" <Patr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303841,00.html
NASA Refuses to Disclose Air Safety Survey
Monday, October 22, 2007
Reminds me of a job interview I had at a company back in 1992.
I've forgotten their name but it was up around Route 128 somewhere
in the Boston area and had the contract to redo the aging air traffic
control software.
I had a good interview, had the background they needed, talked to
several
of the programmers and managers. There were HUNDREDS of software
engineers working on air traffic control software, I had never worked
in a company this big.
I figured I had a chance but they were vague about a follow up
interview, just the old "expect us to contact you in about a week,
maybe". As I headed down the long corridor to the exit, I remembered
that I had left my coat on a chair in the "human resources" office and
immediately turned around and walked back in.
That's when I noticed 6 huge 5 foot high stacks of folders and
resume's lying on the floor next to the filing cabinets. As I walked
back I heard the human resources gal
say "what should I do with this resume, the filing cabinets are
full". She was standing right next to the trash bin.
It was clear that even back then, outsourcing must have been uppermost
on management's minds in those happy pre 9-11 days. They were going
to shit can most of the local software engineer applications obviously
because the salary demands and requirements for company health care
and benefits could be bypassed by going for foreigners who worked dirt
cheap in those days in order to get in on a cool project.
By now, all those skilled native engineers, like me, have "gone
elsewhere" and maybe it is not such a great idea anymore to hire
foreign programmers for air traffic control systems which have
national defense and security implications.

America has not once taken true and full responsibility for air traffic
safety or the airlines.

Was all this so that management could have even FATTER paychecks,
bonuses and benefits?

Nope. There's no such thing as the "management" in this case. Air reaffic
safety in America is a mix-matched and mismatched combination of gov't
employees, career gov't employees, other gov't agency employees, Congress,
Congressional committees (and their employees), AND civilian agencies (and
their employees), and the commercial air carriers.

Think about it next time you're taking off or
landing at a crowded urban area airport.

We quit flying commercial in 1996 after the ValueJet crash.

Good points and wise choice!!

Citizen Jimserac

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