Rocky V

Proud Veteran and Air Traffic Controller #NATCA #LFC #Reds #WhoDey #JFT97 #ThunderUp

[Rocky V @struts10]

I made it! #LFC #YNWA

[Rocky V @struts10]

@JoeyVotto @willie_lutz @bpscheidler I like to keep the money on the field.

[Zachary 🏙️ @ZachIsHere]

I think it is really under appreciated that Kansas City's own UMKC has one of the best NCAA soccer teams in the nation.

[Rocky V @struts10]

@MCCCANM This is not by any means “ATC fails.” This is a lack of redundancy in the system. It’s most likely been created by the FAA forcing an area to move from N90 to Philly. They said it was to fix staffing. How about just hire and pay your people. I say again, THIS IS NOT “ATC FAILS.”

[Joey DeBerardino @JoeyDeBerardino]

Check out this shot of Ja’Marr Chase’s incredible touchdown grab against Houston.

Look at the feet… wow.

This as good as it gets right here.

(📸: Tim Warner/Getty)

[Rocky V @struts10]

@AndrewHfc @CharlieG__ Yeah, sounds like he’ll never feel his fingertips again.

[Anna Giaritelli @Anna_Giaritelli]

Rep. Watson Coleman tells FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford: "I think that what you describe is almost a Catch-22 situation. You want more efficiency. You don't think they've met that efficiency. You don't think that they're working as effectively. But then you say you're understaffed. They say that they're working six days a week, sometimes 10 hours a day, sometimes even more, and then have the responsibility to do the training. They're contending that the morale in the agency is very bad, and that you seem to be operating it as if you're a corporate bottom line person who is concerned about money, and that. and that's like where I'm concerned about safety."

[Rocky V @struts10]

@JaeLobdell86 @Anna_Giaritelli We can’t train anymore right now. They need to keep the faucet flowing. No more start stop. We are also close to cutting the academy time by 19 days but Bedford is apparently unaware.

[SleeperBengals @SleeperBengals]

Ten years ago today, A.J. Green turned Revis Island into a resort 🏝️

🏖️ 12 receptions
🏖️ 180 yards
🏖 1 TD

#WhoDey

[jayhawk lasso @jaylassoku]

breaking: mizzou has released their uniforms for friday night

[Rocky V @struts10]

@Jay182883579541 @Anna_Giaritelli Right, but that’s not their “salary” not overall compensation.

[Anna Giaritelli @Anna_Giaritelli]

Thoughts on FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford in new YouTube interview with Captain Steve. He said:"We had within the first 24 hours of putting that offer out there [to video gamers], we had over 10,000 applications come in. So what we did do is we raised significant awareness that the FAA is hiring. That these are are good jobs, well-paying jobs. I mean, these are six-figure salaries, some up to $300,000 a year salary."

Will note that 2% of applicants ultimately make it to becoming certified air traffic controllers. That's 200 of the 10,000 and it will take 1-5 years to be certified. When half of ATCs nationwide begin retiring between 2028-2031, you WILL have a deeper staffing crisis before the gamers are certified. And you will still be short come 2031.

[Rocky V @struts10]

@Anna_Giaritelli There is not a single ATCS in the country whose “salary” is $300k. Only a few make it close working several hundred hours of OT per year. More misinformation as per usual.

[Rocky V @struts10]

@ELLMEHL @Anna_Giaritelli They get off work at 5PM Thursday and return at 9PM Friday night. The only have the 30 hours off required by law and are in the building every day of that 14 day pay period.

[Aadhi @AadhiR3211]

Get
Ke’Bryan
Hayes
Off
This
Fucking
Team
NOW

GET HIM THE FUCK OFF THIS FUCKING TEAM IM SERIOUS @Reds

[Rocky V @struts10]

@alwystired33 @Anna_Giaritelli We have several who will top 700

[Rocky V @struts10]

@westjclint @RedsDaily4 Horrible!

[Rocky V @struts10]

@Anna_Giaritelli It’s funny how you can do some research and see all this but the FAA can’t see the forest through the trees.

[Anna Giaritelli @Anna_Giaritelli]

More than 90% of the nation’s 313 air traffic control facilities were short-staffed as of 2025, according to the NY Times.

Staffing shortfalls, created when employees choose to retire early and most trainees fail out, are a leading factor for flight delays, not employees taking sick days, as Duffy has publicly stated. Towers can only manage so many flights at a time with the limited number of staff available.

John Scully, a 30-year air traffic controller who worked at FAA headquarters in Washington for a decade, said the DOT and FAA have continued to “devalue” controllers “with public tweets about sick leave abuse.”

https://t.co/iAp9fahKXE