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Cake day: August 27th, 2023

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  • Entering the school is a bit annoying but you don’t need anything else besides having a brain and resisting stress. Not knowing if you will succeed is stressful but that goes for any school, and this one is paying you to attend it, not the other way around.

    The workload is easy, I’m at the EU airways crossroads and working ATC is easy, I feel like I’m always on days off and I work less than 5h a day. Honestly it’s one of the best career you can do besides being rich and not working.

    Maybe it’s because I’ve been doing that for more than a decade so it’s natural now.

    And mostly, Europe isn’t FAA, I can’t tell for them but from what I’ve read it’s a shit show over there.



  • In Switzerland that’s less than a rent in “large cities”.

    For the cantons (regions) that have a minimum wage, this minimum is at 4000 and while possible, living at 4000/months in Geneva or Zurich is considered poverty. You can do it but it’s a constant fight to find low prices and save money, it’s survival, not living.










  • Air traffic controller. A shit ton of money for a shit ton of days off and holidays.

    My highest degree is from the aviation school so it’s kinda useless outside of aviation.

    Same for my pilots friends, none of them went to university/college but rather straight to flying school after the mandatory diploma you pass at around eighteen (Baccalauréat in France).

    It is great but the downside is that if we want to change careers we can only become business owners (aka, create our own jobs) because nobody wants us and we don’t accept their “real world” shitty work conditions.



  • Wait what? There is a Cœur D’Alene in Idaho?

    Now I’m curious and wonder how you guys try to pronounce that very French name (with a strong R at the end of cœur)

    Edit: I watched some videos and most of the people seemed to say “core da lane” with a different emphasis on lane. And one fella saying “coor d’alane”

    In French it’s Coeur like beurre, and Alène like À laine. Anyway, it’s cool to have a place named “heart of” something