Time To Listen Up - AVweb

There is such a place where “ATC” gets to provide that immediate and “forthright” feedback…Air Boss running flight deck and out to 10 nm…piss him off and you will know, your squadron’s “tower flower” for that event will know, your skipper, peers (subject for extended midrats discussions), CAG/Adm and staff will all know…and you will achieve lasting notoriety in grease pencil on the Boss’s tower window.

…a 30 year memorable one was the day the COD checked in before the next launch/recovery and requested a fly-by (std up the wake, stern to bow up port side as low/fast as you could beat the horse)…all the squadron reps were already in the tower with Boss for the next cycle and collectively rolled eyes at the spectacle of a C-2 puttering by. Boss cleared him in and we all watched the wake and checked the calendar for his arrival…and waited…and then he showed up opposite direction (bow to stern)…Boss looked at us, we looked at him, he grabbed his mic…“(C-2) your signal is hook up clean up and just go away”. Though we missed some mail that day, it was good not to be him.

…in answer to the F-16 mishap comments, you can only make a system idiot resistant and you have to have an effective purge process after they self-identify…add having such a filter for the GA world to the wishlist.