Margin for Error: None: Through the Skills of the Air Traffic Controller a Faulty System is Made to Work

By Brian Power-Waters

Book Overview

*THIS IS THE REPUBLISHED VERSION. THE ORIGINAL VERSION WAS PUBLISHED IN 1980. THIS VERSION DOES NOT CONTAIN NEW OR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. When was the last time you heard the name Air Traffic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595186912
• ISBN13: 9780595186914
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Better than Pushing Tin

I was an Air Traffic Controller at the New York " Common Eye " Radar Approach Controller Facility at JFK International Airport when Captain Waters visited to do research for this book. Pictures of controllers at radar scopes and busy at their positions do our profession justice. Captain Waters gives the reader an indept picture of the complex job of separating and sequencing aircraft by controllers using outdated equipment. It is now 2008 and unfortunately little has been done by the FAA to modernize and improve the safety of the Air Traffic Control System. This an other books by Captain Waters are a "must read " for anyone interested in the inner workings of the Aviation Industry.

Excellent Read

... I thought it absolutely excellent and ... at times it positively gave me the creeps! Bob Stanford-Tuck, RAF Wing Commander (Retired), Battle of Britain Quadruple Ace

Pays Tribute

An airline pilot pays tribute to the behind-the-scenes of the nation's air traffic controllers. The Retired Officer

Hair Raising

A fascinating--and sometimes hair raising--account of how the air traffic control system really works and what can be done to improve the situation. As an experienced airline pilot, Captain Power-Waters knows what he is talking about and lays the facts before the public. Anyone who travels by air should read this book.Con Hitchcock, Director of the Aviation Consumer Action Project and Aide to Ralph Nader.

A First Time Insight Into ATC

Captain Brian Power-Waters is intimately knowledgeable concerning the air traffic control system. As an airline captain, he brings the knowledge associated with his twenty-six years as a line pilot. Coupled with his close relationship with air traffic controllers for over twenty years, he is acutely aware of and acquainted with the problems of both professions. Captain Power-Waters provides us with a first time insight into the workings of the air traffic controller profession. The challenges and the many problems encountered in the current air traffic control system.