Dean Miller, Denver Center It’s true what they say about Northwest Mountain controllers: they are definitely no strangers to working aircraft in high terrain – with usually some icing and wintery weather thrown in. These were […]

Chuck LaBombard, Burlington, Vt. ATCT Twenty-five-year veteran Chuck LaBombard took his position relief briefing at Burlington on Sept. 26, 2010, expecting to take over a somewhat tricky, but overall fairly normal operation. However, it didn’t take […]

Gregory Dukeman, Cleveland Center With an excess of admirable patience and dedication, a Cleveland Center (ZOB) member took control of a tricky situation last year. The episode that occurred on June 24, 2010, was a complicated […]

Mike Chambers and Clint Clifton, Huntington, W. Va. ATCT “I have replayed our communications in my mind a hundred times,” stated pilot Bob Taylor in a recent letter. It was the evening of Oct. 12, 2010, […]

David Cornell, Cedar Rapids ATCT On the evening of Jan. 18, 2010, 17-year veteran controller David Cornell received the call many controllers dread. Cessna N8584X was declaring an emergency. In an area suffering from low ceilings […]

David Whisnant, Anchorage TRACON Douglas Mruk phoned in for help on the early morning of June 30, and it was not from the sky, or even solid ground. Mruk found himself clinging to the edge of […]