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My father has his birthday a day before mine and the family always gets together to celebrate. One year, after seeing this, I said, "I'll bring the cake." My mom refused to eat any of it. My dad took the leftovers home for his buddies on poker night.

Yes. Aircraft executing rapid altitude changes should squawk 4000 instead of 1200.

Assemble in the following order: 1. Bowl 2. Fritos 3. Chili 4. Shredded cheese (and don't use that pre shredded stuff, it's coated with stuff so that it doesn't stick together) 5. Diced onion 6. Tres Diablos hot sauce (since my wife doesn't like it very spicy). Perfecto!

Each center has a proposed flight plan drop interval. Ours was set at 120 minutes, but it is a changeable parameter. When the delays start going up, we would usually raise it to 180 or 240. Set it too high and you have beacon allocation issues. Set it too low and the flight plan drops out...

All California craziness aside, if you're ever in Madisonville, TN (KMNV) you've got to go to Benton Country Hams and buy their bacon. They cure it the old fashioned way with salt and sugar for 28 days then smoke it. Afterward, it doesn't need refrigeration. Your house will have the most...

IMHO, reports to the ASRS are data points that can show trends toward safety hazards before they become an accident/incident. If enough reports show there is a problem, perhaps something can be done to remedy it.

When I first went into OJT, I was surprised to find the controller that was the most ornery with GA pilots was himself, a GA pilot. I went up with him once in his Muskateer and his demeanor was completely different on the other side of the mic.

Visit an ATC facility (or two). For the pilots that visited us, they all said they learned a lot about why we did what we did. I would suggest a smaller approach control where the controller had time to talk between transmissions to explain what's going on. If you can also visit a center as well...

At ZTL when we got pilot reports for forest fires we had a list of numbers to call depending on the geographic location of the fire.

Enroute facilities can and do provide vectors to final. As @flyingron said SVH is a good example. Pilots can expect vectors to final at HKY nearby as well and in fact there was (is) a Letter to Airmen advertising practice instrument approaches there.

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I retired 3 years ago. If an aircraft was overdue, or there was a simultaneous unexpected loss of radar/radio contact, we issued an ALNOT. An ALNOT gets the AFRCC involved. Honestly, I cannot recall issuing an INREQ during my career. If your aircraft is possibly down, more people looking for you...

Here's my experience with this. Sorry if it's too long. My steps I followed: 1. Issue an ALNOT (alert notice). This is a message sent through Flight Data to all facilities 100NM either side of centerline of the route seeking information on the flight. The AFRCC (Air Force Rescue Coordination...