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Article 114 rep telling what it is like to be a controller!

“Allison Schwaegel (St. Louis ATCT, STL) offered an inside look at life as an air traffic controller”

She hasn’t given a clearance in how long? How long again has she been a NATCA & FAA COLLABORATION FACILITATOR, not having to have a medical, not having to work overtime? Not having the stress of actually doing the job she was hired for.

Yeah, I’m sure she has a lot of insight.

Never mind the fact that every time I have seen these facilitators come to a facility in my career, A90 and ZDV nothing changed.

But then again, she has done a great job with the rest of the NLC getting that 2.8% across the finish line!

TLDR: I like it. More than my GTS, and it gets at least the same range if not more with more power.

So I ordered my Fungineers Supercharged X7 on 6/15. It arrived today 6/24. I did the quick setup as they said and jumped on it for a quick 5 mile ride to make sure it worked.

Then after dinner I jumped on it and rode my usual 12 mile loop around the neighborhood.

For background I have a GTS with over 1400 miles on it with one oopsie around 600 miles that requires a quick ER visit and a new helmet (User error of course). I like to just carve around the streets and have nice relaxing rides, though I generally average about 20mph. I’m 48 and used to be an extreme sports guy, but generally don’t push as hard now-a-days since healing sucks.

Jumping on the board immediately comparing it to my GTS I found it more nimble. It flew up and down the hills and had every bit of power I wanted and then some. It’s amazing.

It gave me confidence when I had to jump on the couple “busier roads” and push the board speed to get away from traffic where my GTS gave me more concern because I was always worried about a nosedive at higher speeds. The best thing is it (this board) has more speed (torque) then I need.

I pushed it harder then my GTS in a couple sections just to see the duty cycle and such as was pleasantly surprised. Oh I also realized how terrible the Onewheel app is. Having Duty Cycle, speed, audio alerts is amazing.

I tried Floaty for the first 5 miles and settled on Float Control for my longer ride. I love the Audio alerts; the watch having duty cycle and speed, and actually getting more feedback about the board. How can I go back to the Onewheel after this? Don’t get me wrong, tools and tech are great and sometimes a distraction, but it’s nice to have numbers as well to back up and validate “feelings”

I’m going to attach a couple screen shots, same ride earlier this week in the GTS and tonight’s ride on the X7SC.

The battery life is definitely better than the GTS since I rode a bit faster and messed around accelerating and decelerating more trying to get a feel for the board. I weigh 174 pounds for the record.

The extra weight I don’t notice at all, however, I definitely missed the mag handle carrying it up stairs from my basement:

I’m super happy I got this board. I look forward to putting a few hundred miles on it this summer. I’ll probably sell my GTS. Maybe if I decide I like longer rides I will consider replacing the GTS with an X7 long range. For now, it’s everything I wanted.

So I have had a GTS for about 2.5 years now, and put about 1400 miles on it…. I only ride during the summer months now that I am old. Also Thus far only one ER visit, as despite my overcorrection at speed the Helmet did its job.

However I’ve always felt like my ideal cruise speed is right about 22-23 mph and I’ve always been a little cautious at that speed with the GTS wishing I had a little more buffer.

So I was debating getting the Supercharged. I walked downstairs and said to the wife, what do you think about me buying this? It’s for safety’s sake, lol. She’s like go for it!

So here we are.

Additionally, when I used to BASE jump years ago, I was always a dress for the crash in Gnarly jumps kind of guy.

Any good recommendations on a full face helmet that’s light weight? I already do the full gloves / pads / shorts / chest/spine stuff.