u/Pumpsnhose

ITAP: John Barton Apartments at Sunrise

Someone posted asking about the brutalist building downtown. I took this picture while walking downtown at sunrise a couple weeks ago. I think brutalism is not very appealing, but there’s something about the way this building glows in the low light mornings and evenings that adds some beauty to it.

Edit: I did not intend for there to be anything political about this post. Just genuinely thought it was a nice photo of an interesting piece of architecture. I’m not interested in the political chatter, thanks.

u/Pumpsnhose — 9 hours ago

▲ 21 r/photographs

Foggy Morning Airport

iPhone XR, 2019

u/Pumpsnhose — 24 days ago

▲ 94 r/ATC

A $50k raise across the board for all (13,000 fully staffed) controllers, and obviously a raise or elimination of the pay cap, plus a 35% pension contribution and 5% match for TSP for said $50k raise, could be paid for by $1 per passenger, per IFR flight segment flown. Per the FAA, we handle more than 3M passengers per day, which would total $1.095B dollars. My proposal would cost $910M, and factors in 3000 employees that don’t even exist yet. It’s not the money we deserve, but it’s a significant boost to what we have now and would make lower level facilities more competitive in their markets.

Airlines/GA: But what about cargo? They use the NAS too!

Glad you asked. $1 per ton of cargo. Another $22M injected into the system.

This would have to be earmarked specifically for air traffic controller salaries and not for other improvements to the system or to subsidize any other government programs. What is the argument against it?

edit: IFR flight plan to IFR flight segment flown

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u/Pumpsnhose — 2 months ago