re: So I just met Nick Fairley

I'm not a 100% sure. This seemed the quickest link I could dig up.

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One guy I flew with years back was married to a controller, she graduated with an art degree. That was the first I heard of the good salaries. I had the Newark "cab" supervisor on my jumpseat a few months ago and he told me about making 120k in year two. The catch, the washout rate at that facility, and many of the new York ones, is around 40-50%.But the pay is fitting for the demand. He seemed desperate to get more people. There is variety, you can be at an airport like PDK in Atlanta, at big Atlanta dealing with me or doing the high altitude stuff which for Atlanta is in Hampton GA.

Here's the faa produced manual that both old and controllers work off. As old you get some of it memorized. Controllers are kind of forced to get most of it memorized. The faa requires both of us to know it. But I'm too busy posting on the rant to study that crap anymore.
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