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So begins my second semester at Middle Georgia College in the CTI program. This semester I'll be focused on control tower operations. Yahh! I'm excited! :D

View out my dorm room window. Be jealous:

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Well, meanwhile, so begins my last year of school.

View outside my classroom window:
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Be proud of what you have :(
 
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That's not such a bad view is it? At least some green. For years I only saw a gray wall of the building next to us from my office.

But then again, I should probably be happy we have a window in each office and I am not sitting in a cubicle :).
 
Well schools and offices have never been known for their scenic views, so I guess we've all gone through that stage at some point... :rotfl:
 
Well, that might be true of most schools, but when I attented Leysin American School in Leysin, Switzerland, the view out the windows looking out across the vallen some 8,000' feet below and towards the Grand St. Bernard tunnel was quite distracting!

I haven't taken the time to scan all of my photos from back in the sixties yet, but here's one of our graduating class of '66, which at least shows the valley and distant Swiss/Italian Alps... :D
 

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So I survived my first tower simulator session today! :D

Next time I'm in the lab I might snap a pic to share with you guys.
 
Jon: I'm jealous, although I'd prefer a pilot school (to peeve off controllers later on ("Say again?"..."Say again?") :p ). :D


Be glad about bad views from your office windows only, guys.
Imagine getting home and having a view like this:





(Fortunately, this was just for 8,9 months.)
 
I wish you well, its the greatest job in the World.

I couldn't imagine doing anything else.
Been moving airplanes for close on 14 years now firstly at the London Terminal Control Centre in the UK now in Toronto Centre.
This is the view from my "window" taken at about 3am on a deathly midnight shift !
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I always wanted to be a tower controller, but now I really enjoy radar work (Don't quote me on that after a day of thunderstorms though)
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Edit - And the view from my old "window" :)
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=126062

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=126063
 
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing those photos. I'm thinking a tower/TRACON facility is where I want to end up, but I'll be taking whatever they offer me! The state of hiring the US is kinda spotty at the moment. I'll be done with CTI school next December. Then it's just a waiting game.
 
As promised, here are a few shots:

Control tower simulator. I'm in the tower course this semester, our lab involves using the simulator here to apply what we learn in class to work ground control, flight data, and local control. It's all voice recognition, the pilots communicate and respond to your commands. It's basically a giant video game, and you've NO idea how fun it is.

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Here's the radar lab. I'll be in the radar class next semester.

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And on top of the building is the actual control tower. The airport is the Heart of Georgia Regional Airport, the identifier is KEZM.

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Well, of course I knew it, I just never knew to what extent... There is a big difference.
 
Haha yes it is. And it changes IRL, quite frequently. Example, the phraseology is now "line up and wait" instead of "taxi into position and hold"
 
I fixed that in both FS9 and FSX via EditVoicepak about the time the U.S. changed over to that phraseology.
 
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Haha yes it is. And it changes IRL, quite frequently. Example, the phraseology is now "line up and wait" instead of "taxi into position and hold"
Click to expand...

There's an EVP mod out there which changes this.
 
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