Work and school

I was really sick today and it was hard to be productive at work. I tried to get some stuff done and helped out a bit, but in the end I went home a couple hours early. I hope I feel better tomorrow so I can be more help to KC.

I finished my fourth masters class with Touro University today! On 7 April I will start two classes. When those two classes are done I will only have five more to go until I graduate. I will be taking Strategic Marketing and International Marketing.

Tim Pyne M-Hotel

This still is an Air Force/ATC Blog, but because it also involves my life, and this is what I am looking at right now, I included it.

Tim Pyne has some great ideas, one of the latest is the M-Hotel shown below.





The following Article is where I found this but Time Pyne has his website here.

Dubai's "The Wave Tower"

You need to check out this article! This is one of the coolest buildings I have seen in a while. Dubai at the forefront once again. The company who is building it is called A-cero and they have a great website here

Link to Article

Tasks at work

It is interesting how many things come up at work. It doesn't matter how slow you think the day is going to be, with out a doubt some task will come up and prevent you from doing what you had originally planned on doing. Between now and the end of this month I have 34 things that are on my list of things to do. Some of the things are very easy but some are more time consuming. The only good news is that I am able to delegate to some of the people that work for me.

Another thing that came up today was the fact that one of my troops who is about to deploy also got orders to Misawa, Japan. The way his orders were given meant that he would have only had a week or two to sell his house, pack things, and move to Japan. To help him out the Airfield Manager called his counterpart in Japan to see if his "report no later than date" (RNLTD) could be pushed to the right a couple of months. This was just one of the many things that ended up getting in the way of a fairly structured day.

F-15s Crash off Florida coast, 20 Feb 08

It was incredibly sad to hear that a couple F-15s had crashed off the Florida coast last week. First this and then the B-2 crash. In the case of the Eglin birds, one of the pilots was killed. The follow article from the Pensacola News Journal gives a could summary of what happened.

To read more about this, click on the link below.

Summary

B-2 crash in Guam, 23 Feb 08

HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — A B-2 stealth bomber crashed Saturday shortly after taking off from Anderson Air Force Base in Guam.

The crash was the first for a B-2, said Capt. Sheila Johnston, a spokeswoman for Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.

Both pilots ejected safely. There were no injuries on the ground or damage to buildings, and no munitions were on board.

The aircraft was one of four leaving Guam after a four-month deployment as part of a continuous American bomber presence in the western Pacific.

After the crash, which happened at 10:30 a.m., the three other bombers were being kept on Guam, said Maj. Eric Hilliard at Hickham Air Force Base in Hawaii. One B-2 that had taken off safely was called back.

The Air Force did not identify the pilots but said one was medically evaluated and released and the other was in stable condition at Guam Naval Hospital.

A board of officers will investigate the cause of the crash.

Each B-2 bomber costs about $1.2 billion. All are based at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, but the Air Force has been rotating several through Guam since 2004, along with B-1 and B-52 bombers.

The rotations are designed to support American security in the Asia-Pacific region while other military forces are diverted to the Middle East.

Source:
The New York Times

Finally back in training

I am finally back in training in the tower. I attempted to work flight data and ground combined but it pretty much kicked my butt. I ended up training in Ground control for about 2 hours. It is interesting having been out of the ATC world for about 2 years now, how difficult it is to start working again. It is hard to listen to the different things going on. I am sure that with a bit of time it will start to grow again.