Friday, September 30, 2005
MIV Lives!
At 2pm today, Millville AFSS re-opened for business, albeit for a limited engagement, and many services will not return at all. Here is the scoop as we understand it:
- MIV will be doing airport advisories only until a mobile tower can be moved on-site, in about three weeks.
- About that same time, in-flight communications will be restored.
- Pre-flight services will not be restored.
All the above is predicated on getting the appropriate equipment in place, of course. Air-to-ground communication without a weather database is pretty useless…
As for the controllers, all five who were unable to move to different jobs with the FAA or Lockheed Martin were re-hired. It remains to be seen how quickly MIV will be shut down, though. Lockheed might move them to the head of the line, but this is better than the pre-existing alternative.
- MIV will be doing airport advisories only until a mobile tower can be moved on-site, in about three weeks.
- About that same time, in-flight communications will be restored.
- Pre-flight services will not be restored.
All the above is predicated on getting the appropriate equipment in place, of course. Air-to-ground communication without a weather database is pretty useless…
As for the controllers, all five who were unable to move to different jobs with the FAA or Lockheed Martin were re-hired. It remains to be seen how quickly MIV will be shut down, though. Lockheed might move them to the head of the line, but this is better than the pre-existing alternative.
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Unfortunatly, since the FAA broke the RIF rules I had to take a postion with Lockheed at RDU AFSS. I was one of the people from MIV that really couldn't move due to family circumstances. Guess what, I'm in North Carolina and my wife and children are in NJ. It will be like this until I could maybe get a job with LM in NJ. This may take years. While in an interview with the head of HR at the ACY Tech Center, He said there was plenty of work that we were qualified to do there but the FAA wouldn't let him hire us. He alluded that he could've used everyone from MIV and maybe more stations. Needless to say he was not happy about how the FAA treated us Flight Service controllers. Oh, by the way, RDU is already taking calls from southern VA on what it seems is a permanant basis. The pilots seem happy about shorter hold times, but it came with absolutly no training for the controllers now handling an unfamiliar area. I cringe when I think of what's going to happen when the leprosy stations close!!!
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