Third sleeping controller triggers action

[jason]

Another controller has been caught sleeping on the job. The FAA has now added a second controller to 27 towers on the overnight shift.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/2011/04/13/faa-suspends-boeing-field-controller-adds-27/

 

[Jim Logajan]

Another controller has been caught sleeping on the job. The FAA has now added a second controller to 27 towers on the overnight shift.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/2011/04/13/faa-suspends-boeing-field-controller-adds-27/

Could be worse - could be pilots falling asleep:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8433199/Long-haul-pilots-fell-asleep-at-controls.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...p-in-cockpit-as-co-pilot-goes-to-the-loo.html

 

[Jim Logajan]

Another controller has been caught sleeping on the job. The FAA has now added a second controller to 27 towers on the overnight shift.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/2011/04/13/faa-suspends-boeing-field-controller-adds-27/

FAA administrator claimed: "We absolutely cannot and will not tolerate sleeping on the job. This type of unprofessional behavior does not meet our high safety standards."

The administrator seems oblivious to human physiology if he thinks the issue is one of "professionalism". His grandstanding on the problem is becoming tiresome. Hopefully someone under him understands the real cause of the problem and deals with it correctly.

 

[Jim Logajan]

This whole thing about sleeping controllers is tiring. Can't someone put this subject to rest already?

 

[Jim Logajan]

The answer to this problem is to close these facilities at night. I don't see why our society wouldn't like that answer.

The FAA doesn't appear to be interested in that obvious solution - perhaps because the top management is driven by political considerations?