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Derek Bittman, Atlanta Center President’s Award Winner for Overall Best Flight Assist of 2010 On Jan. 16, 2010, certified professional controller Derek Bittman stumbled across a particular situation that could have easily changed forever the life […]

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 […]