Charlie Echo

Absolutely incredible

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Iran S04 E06 Dailymotion video by L3arnTV

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

This new system is less than two years old, EWR used to be controlled at the N90 facility on Long Island, the FAA moved the EWR area to PHL and that is when the issues started, they did not do a direct radar feed, just a copy of the feed from N90 which is causing the issues.

Radar screens at Newark airport went black again overnight Radar screens at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport went black again early Friday morning.

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Yeah agreed, and they could have done more to increase staffing, they did some stuff but not enough, we are seeing a bigger push now but without pay increases I am worried about controller retention especially if we get 0% raises over the next few years.

Reading this closely…no quick change in staffing, they are just “adding more” eventually.

The long term fix is the STARs hub at PHL and direct radar lines, that was already the plan but they don’t mention if they are speeding it up.

Redundancy in lines is good but how many did they already have?

It’s more than the Biden administration, plans for the move are decades old, the process started under the first Trump admin.

The issue is long term in the FAA more than any specific administration, leadership does not take responsibility, they want a quick “fix” even if it is worse later.

Ooof yeah that will do it

Wasn’t surprised when were holding EWRs over NC earlier today, but we when starting holding LGAs as well and then rerouting them over CLE I was like what the heck is going on up there lol

Weather is crazy up there right now

My painting LOST COAST

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top.

#HandsOff2025

Wow, that’s a day. Do you guys have any limits on shift length? At the FAA we can only work a max of 10 hours, but as ATC fatigue is a big deal

Toilet paper shortage 2025 starts now 🤣

Brilliant! Love a good magnet solution.

This OPSEC Special Bulletin went out to the Pentagon during the same time period that SECDEF was using an unauthorized Signal chat.

You can’t make this shit up.

Me in the national security team group chat.

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

When Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE in November, he described the work as “tedious” and noted that “compensation is zero.” But WIRED has learned that some DOGE staffers are drawing six-figure salaries from the agencies they’re dismantling.
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This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

A hockey game where fans are sitting in the stands and we see them from the back. One guy is wearing a red jersey that says Never 51.

Best Jersey ever.

#Canpoli
#Canada
#Hockey

People in tech talk about the idea of a “10x programmer” — someone whose work is worth that of 10 others. I get the impression Musk etc think they can apply it all over the federal workforce but like… there’s no such thing as a 10x ATC navigational aid maintenance worker. Some jobs just need people.

NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block.

The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.

A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.

Again, this isn't about efficiency.

This is what it looks like when you lose a massive spacecraft on its way to orbit right over the Caribbean. Lots of commercial flights turning/holding/diverting to avoid falling debris from SpaceX's Starship.

Lots of flights deviating around Israel / Gaza, plenty of flights still into LLBG for now. All departing or arriving to the north, always interesting in these situations as ATC may have to come up routes on the fly. Depends on what departures / arrivals already exist.

Sheesh who had the idea to even think of studying that in the first place?!

Just installed a dash cam in my new EV, what’s annoying is that the car already has front and rear cameras, would be great to just have an SD card slot and they could function as built in dashcams