Sunday, December 11, 2005
Mr. Carr Gets a Blog.
…late to the game, but finally here nonetheless.
Yes, yes, we know. When it comes to the ongoing Flight Service story there are many issues of greater interest than the NATCA (National Air Traffic Controllers Association) negotiations. We ourselves are wondering how far into this swamp we should meander before realizing we have gone too far afield.
But there’s something compelling about watching others tumble down the same slope on which you just battered yourself, especially when said tumbler makes a remark on the spill you just took.
A comment to our last post by ‘RK RDU formerly MIV’ has a question for NATCA President John Carr; what does he mean in his blog post of 12/6 (“I’ll be home for Christmas”) when he mentions “the Freddie [sic] Kruger of air traffic services, the Flight Service Stations?” You can read the whole entry here.
One could guess that Mr. Carr’s Kruger comment is an attempt to slam the FAA, but there’s no contextual assurance. It isn’t until the latter half of the next paragraph it becomes clear that his sympathies lay with those who used to be his controlling brethren, the Flight Service specialists. Mr. Carr is making a pop cultural reference the famous Nightmare on Elm Street movies; the FAA is the villainous slasher, while Flight Service was the innocent that was slaughtered.
Two things come to mind. First, Mr. Carr continues his crocodile tears over what happened to Flight Service. We can’t help but re-define the famous historical parallel…’they came for Flight Service but I did nothing because I wasn’t Flight Service.’ A ‘firewall’ for NATCA was available during that A-76 'study', but they chose to ignore it. Mr. Carr doesn’t seem to have a very far or wide tactical vision.
The second thing is Mr. Carr’s clumsy attempt at communication. The Freddy Kruger analogy is a botched play that requires further elaboration to become clear. That clarity comes rather late in the semantic stumble that is his post. His membership should hope he does better when it counts.
The Nightmare On Elm Street analogy is an interestingly apt one. In the movies, Freddy Kruger attacked his victims in their dreams, thus he was impervious to real-life tactics to defeat him. The solution was cerebral trickery to bring him into the real world. As we mentioned in ‘The Archaic Playbook’ (12/1), the old expectations in Federal labor relations no longer apply. Mr. Carr’s verbiage indicates that he is operating in a dream world of the past. If he stays there, his Krugerish FAA will likely cut him to ribbons.
Yes, yes, we know. When it comes to the ongoing Flight Service story there are many issues of greater interest than the NATCA (National Air Traffic Controllers Association) negotiations. We ourselves are wondering how far into this swamp we should meander before realizing we have gone too far afield.
But there’s something compelling about watching others tumble down the same slope on which you just battered yourself, especially when said tumbler makes a remark on the spill you just took.
A comment to our last post by ‘RK RDU formerly MIV’ has a question for NATCA President John Carr; what does he mean in his blog post of 12/6 (“I’ll be home for Christmas”) when he mentions “the Freddie [sic] Kruger of air traffic services, the Flight Service Stations?” You can read the whole entry here.
One could guess that Mr. Carr’s Kruger comment is an attempt to slam the FAA, but there’s no contextual assurance. It isn’t until the latter half of the next paragraph it becomes clear that his sympathies lay with those who used to be his controlling brethren, the Flight Service specialists. Mr. Carr is making a pop cultural reference the famous Nightmare on Elm Street movies; the FAA is the villainous slasher, while Flight Service was the innocent that was slaughtered.
Two things come to mind. First, Mr. Carr continues his crocodile tears over what happened to Flight Service. We can’t help but re-define the famous historical parallel…’they came for Flight Service but I did nothing because I wasn’t Flight Service.’ A ‘firewall’ for NATCA was available during that A-76 'study', but they chose to ignore it. Mr. Carr doesn’t seem to have a very far or wide tactical vision.
The second thing is Mr. Carr’s clumsy attempt at communication. The Freddy Kruger analogy is a botched play that requires further elaboration to become clear. That clarity comes rather late in the semantic stumble that is his post. His membership should hope he does better when it counts.
The Nightmare On Elm Street analogy is an interestingly apt one. In the movies, Freddy Kruger attacked his victims in their dreams, thus he was impervious to real-life tactics to defeat him. The solution was cerebral trickery to bring him into the real world. As we mentioned in ‘The Archaic Playbook’ (12/1), the old expectations in Federal labor relations no longer apply. Mr. Carr’s verbiage indicates that he is operating in a dream world of the past. If he stays there, his Krugerish FAA will likely cut him to ribbons.
# posted by Skywise @ 8:38 PM 
