SII wrote:I do however appreciate you catching the rest of your co-workers up with the discution

Either
1. you speak french, or
2. you can't spell discussion.

Why do I get the feeling that your logbook is written entirely in crayon?

I'm not an expert here - others feel free to correct/chime in. 1 - what do you define as "shit" wx? Is that shit for the pilots or ATC? Are you saying winter IFR and full vectors (RNP) is better than mixing visuals with TS+? I think his implication is that as soon as the sun comes out, controllers ...

BEFAN5 wrote:May be wrong.. But I do believe I heard a new voice on Departure out of YWG last week.

There is a new voice, and there will be another new one in a week.

start in the fall as there seems to be no shortage of qualified controllers for shit Wx, the shortage only happens when the Wx is nice. sit the trainee beside C_ _ _ _, if others were half the controller he is you wouldn't be short now. By the time your 8 months in and ready for the shortage again ...

Seem like a load of shit to me. you need people hire them. your area is the toughest in canada pay a premium. 1 in 10 make it figure out how many people you need and hire 10 times as many. If I ran my buisness the way your company is, I'd be bankrupt. staffing really isn't that big of a deal, unles...

so for 8 months all the overtime they can ask for while they can't do anything anyway cause it's all frozen, and for 4 months everyone else suffers do to the don't @#$! with my overtime pay attitude left over from the former crown corp. I know I'm new here, but could someone explain to me what exac...

so how many bodies would you need to be properly staffed? Sorry, but nobody who works for Nav Canada is going to comment on specifics. I am embarrassed for NavCanada and angry with NavCanada over the Winnipeg Terminal Airspace issue. That might be the sort of thing people in the head office would l...

The enroutes definately help us out where they can, and I realise that our flow has implications at high level altitudes hundreds of miles outside our airspace. It is appreciated. This summer will be worse than last in WG TCU, and next summer even more so. But we are on the slow road to recovery. Un...

I have never been to the control unit, and do not know what the atmosphere is like, but I can imagine terminal being quite high paced. You are more than welcome to visit any time, just call the shift manager and he will set it up. We always appreciate pilots who want to see what the other side of t...

need more people hire more candidates, or protect your over time? You are an idiot. Not one WG TCU controller is interested in 'protecting their overtime'. What they are interested in is spending more time during the summer with their families and not spending 7 days a week at work. We are working ...

Not true. I believe that if they are transporting critical supplies or equipment, they can still be a medevac (i.e. transporting organs to another city for transplant).

SII wrote:now I don't know Rog in YYZ but I would like to put chris and rog side by side in a busy terminal and watch them work, after years of listening to chris it suprises me that this is a tough area to control but I guess that just showes you how good a job he does.

That's funny.