OG_ursinejuggernaut

This is just out of curiosity since I don’t live in the US and like my career, but what’s the testing like? Id imagine that although a degree isn’t required you’d have to be quite good at e.g mentally managing a large and fairly dynamic amount of data? Plus of course being a good/assertive communicator and being calm under pressure

Thanks! I found some practice ATSAs which answer my question and confirm my assumptions.

Re the nerves thing (I actually wanted to ask this as well)- from what I understand, the relationship between pilots and atc has come a long way in the past 25 years or so in terms of communication and mutual respect…but I still wonder how often a controller has to say ‘bish I said maintain flight level 28 until you reach <handover point>, do you think I’m just making this up as I go along?’ Off the record, of course.

No worries, nothing to be scared of as I’m not planning on becoming an air traffic controller and I’ve always been very at ease with air travel.

And yeah, when I was poking around in the practice test I did the ‘manage all the moving dots’ test, which of course is a skill you can train and they encourage you to, but it is definitely not easy

Edit: ‘definitely not easy’ wasn’t the right way to phrase that as no one said or implied it was easy; what I meant was that it was quite intense/challenging even without any of the stress points

Renzo’s fuckin dope actually- it’s prob been decades since I wished I had someone else’s name but here we are

So this might be a question too complicated to answer here, but do you think you could describe how a poem could be a huge pop hit in its day without comparing it to e.g pop music? I'm genuinely curious because it's something I struggle with in my areas of what might generously be called 'expertise'- if the cultural phenomena are described too...aloofly.... you of course risk alienating most people, but if you draw too close parallels you risk undermining the cultural context which often is pretty essential to understanding the author and the work...

edit to say i mean 'you' as in 'one', not you as in you...I'm never sure if i effectively communicate that