Cleared for takeoff Dad...

[Saracenman]

Oooops

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[Gaz]

Oh dear!!

[Xplumberlives]

So what is so wrong with take a kid to work day?

[Dan4th]

Sounds a little like Bart and Homey to me!

D.

[RLN]

Irresponsible

[Baz62]

Irresponsible

Why? Everyones getting all hyped up as if the child was in the tower playing with the radio. Give me a break.

[RLN]

Nothing wrong with taking your children to work, in fact it is encouraged. I have taken all 3 of mine, but never were they allowed to touch any of the equipment. In my case, the main danger was to themselves as well as the potential loss to the company of Millions of pounds if a Turbine was wrecked.
In the JFK case, apart from the safety implications, there is the unauthorised access. It was his child, but what if it was one of his friends who had terrorist leanings. Yes it may seem fantastical, but it could and does happen (not necessarily at airports). The Americans appear to take it seriously as would any Aviation Authority in the world.

http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=11212

[Baz62]

Maybe so but I think it show someone who has pride in his work and has allowed his children to share that pride. Another slow news day which the media just has to fill with something. Newsworthy? Nah.

[RLN]

I have pride in the job I do and the service it provides to society. It has taken 24 years of continuous training, both practical and theoretical to get the authorisations I have. Those authorisations, my job, pension and my family's livelihood can go with one mistake.This is the constant stress I live with - so it isn't always Homer Simpson. And that is the constant stress ATC operators live with. I hope that prat gets hung out to dry. It's all funny until it goes wrong, and that is why he should get it in the neck - he's been trained to think ahead to the n'th degree about his actions and their consequences. He didn't - that is worrying, because one day it might be you or me on a plane he's guiding. Just as the people who I write safety documents for - they trust me to get it right, because in some cases, i have their lives in my hand - that isn't just dramatics, it's the truth.
It's not newsworthy, I agree. However, I don't have time for people who have responsibility given to them and then they betray that trust.

[Dan4th]

Amen